Stem Cell Transplants, Chemotherapy Likely To Improve Following Discovery That Distinct Niches In Bone Marrow Nurture Blood Stem Cells

In research that could one day improve the success of stem cell transplants and chemotherapy, scientists have found that distinct niches exist in bone marrow to nurture different types of blood stem cells. Stem cells in the blood are the precursors to infection-fighting white blood cells and oxygen-carrying red blood cells. The research, by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is reported in the advance online edition of Nature The new findings, in mice, suggest that it may be possible to therapeutically target support cells in a particular niche... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..