But using cells drawn from umbilical cord blood, Rezvani’s team have been able to manufacture around 40 million CD19-targeting chimeric natural killer cells in two weeks. She told the conference ...

Doctors also sometimes replenish blood cells in cancer patients using healthy blood stem cells drawn from the patients themselves, although these stem cells may be harder to activate and expand if ...

A single molecular switch is essential for blood stem cells to enter an activated, regenerative state in which they produce new blood cells, according to a preclinical study. The discovery could lead ...

Stem cells drawn from the umbilical cord blood of newborn babies are sometimes used to treat medical conditions like lymphoma and sickle-cell anemia by replacing dysfunctional blood-producing cells in ...

This lithograph illustrates the high quality of the visualization techniques used in 1901 for documenting the cellular structures involved in cell division. The figure shows chromosomes in the ...

A single molecular switch is essential for blood stem cells to enter an activated, regenerative state in which they produce new blood cells, according ...

Such cells, drawn directly from the human body, are difficult to transfect. So Krogan’s group instead used lentiviruses produced by GenScript, a life science company based in Piscataway ...