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by Tudor Toma

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Teaching in vitro stem cells to become blood

Human embryonic stem cells co-cultured with bone marrow cell line S17 or yolk sac endothelial cell line C166 transform into viable haematopoietic precursors.

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010906-02

Published

6 September 2001

The potential of embryonic stem cells to develop into a wide variety of tissues and organs has been established, but it remains unclear how this can be achieved in practice. In 4 September Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dan Kaufman and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison show for the first time how undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells (ES) can be cultured to become blood cells.

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