Thursday, June 14, 2007

University of Pittsburgh researchers culture blood-forming stem cells from human fat tissue

Source: University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences
Date: June 14, 2007

Summary:

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have successfully isolated and cultured human hematopoietic stem cells from fat, or adipose, tissue, suggesting that they have found another important source of cells for reconstituting the bone marrow of patients undergoing intensive radiation therapy for blood cancers.