Source: Boston Globe
By Gareth Cook, Globe Staff | January 23, 2006
Biologists announced yesterday a way to dramatically expand populations of blood stem cells, a discovery that could improve bone marrow transplants and make them available to more patients. The new technique, discovered in mouse experiments by biologists at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, uses a cocktail of growth factors to multiply the stem cells up to thirtyfold.
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