Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type—the blood stem cell. An ...

Vaccine effectiveness relies on creating a strong antibody response that can be reactivated to fight future infections. Now, ...

Colony-forming cell assays indicated that the leukemic bone marrow (BM) plasma inhibited erythroid colony formation, whereas they had no inhibitory effect on other types of colonies. Cytokine ...

Researchers from Osaka University found that plasma cells expressing high levels of the protein integrin β7 and the ...

Three years after its discovery of skeletal stem cells in mice, the same research team has identified the human version of this precursor to bone, cartilage, and stroma, the bone marrow’s support ...

A stem cell transplant can be a good treatment for multiple myeloma. A successful transplant gives someone with multiple myeloma new, healthy bone marrow. It replaces the bone marrow harmed by myeloma ...

A bone marrow transplant process is safe and curative for adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a trial completed at about 20 cancer centers. A bone marrow transplant process co ...

Hematopoietic stem cells isolated from various sources such as bone marrow and umbilical cord blood are differentiated to erythroblasts, immature red blood cells that still hold a nucleus.

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...