Success model for China While the goal for transplantation is to introduce healthy blood-forming cells, and to replace those damaged or destroyed cells, Wu recalled that there had not been much ...

hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are remarkably long-lived. HSCs are blood-forming cells – they give rise to rapidly dividing progenitor cells, which in turn generate hundreds of billions of ...

M ore than 100 years ago, Dr. Karl Landsteiner discovered that not all red blood cells are alike. He found that, when ...

Type 1 diabetes develops when the body destroys its own insulin-producing cells. Using stem cells to replace them could be a ...

The immune system has developed the ability to effectively heal small ruptures and fractures by regulating the regenerative ...

Scientists have created a new 'biocooperative' material based on blood, which has been shown to successfully repair bones, ...

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell disease. The trial is the first in the U.S. to apply non-viral CRISPR-Cas9 ...

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell ...