Stem cells are the progenitors of all specialized cells in the body. Blood stem cells (hematopoietic cells) reside in bone marrow and continuously produce a variety of blood and immune system cells.

Specifically, there was an accumulation of common myeloid progenitors (CMPs), which are early-stage blood cells. Further ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute, UCL, Gustave Roussy and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), have discovered that expansion of mutant blood cells, a phenomenon linked to aging, ...

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) can theoretically give rise to all blood cell types ... between these two sources of hematopoietic progenitors. Strategies that address these transcriptomic ...

Filippo Milano is a physician-scientist whose research is focused on the use of umbilical cord blood ... their donated cells are fully engrafted and proliferating. Impact of Non HLA-matched ...

The ability to eliminate specific pathologic cells is creating more options for multiple myeloma patients. Several targeting approaches are in development. BCMA is preferentially expressed on ...