Two states sue cord blood company over misleading claims
Two states are suing a major cord blood storage company, claiming it misled parents about the benefits of saving their newborn's stem cells.
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Cell: Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Medical news and research articles
Short-lived fish offer new insights into the aging immune system
Our immune system protects the body from infections and harmful changes throughout our lives. However, it loses its effectiveness with age, resulting in an increased risk of disease. But what happens when the immune system ...
Mar 24, 2026
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How a rare genetic variant protects some people from developing blood cancers
Blood cancer is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases that affect the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic system. Like most cancers, the cause is usually mutations in the DNA, which are genetic errors that accumulate as ...
Two parallel blood formation systems produce different immune and blood cells
It has only recently become known that two parallel systems of blood formation exist in the body, originating from different precursor cells. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have developed a method ...
Nov 24, 2025
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Scientists reverse aging in blood stem cells by targeting lysosomal dysfunction
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered how to reverse aging in blood-forming stem cells in mice by correcting defects in the stem cell's lysosomes. The breakthrough, published in Cell Stem ...
Nov 24, 2025
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Rejuvenating the blood: New pharmacological strategy targets RhoA in hematopoietic stem cells
Aging is defined as the deterioration of function over time, and it is one of the main risk factors for numerous chronic diseases. Although aging is a complex phenomenon affecting the whole organism, it is proved that the ...
Nov 24, 2025
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Type 1 diabetes cured in mice with gentle blood stem-cell and pancreatic islet transplant
A combination of blood stem cell and pancreatic islet cell transplant from an immunologically mismatched donor completely prevented or cured type 1 diabetes in mice in a study by Stanford Medicine researchers. Type 1 diabetes ...
Nov 18, 2025
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Surprising blood stem cell diversification revealed in humans
Every second, millions of blood cells are produced in the human body, and about 90% of the cells replaced daily are blood cells. These include red blood cells essential for oxygen transport, platelets for blood clotting, ...
Nov 11, 2025
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Stem cells sound magical, but they're not all created equal—here's what you need to know
Most people have heard of stem cells. They are often described as "miracle" cells –ones that can grow into any other type of cell in our bodies, promising revolutionary medical treatments.
Oct 28, 2025
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Rethinking how bone marrow works with a unified framework
One huge reason why the world of medicine hasn't yet found "the cure" for hard-to-treat malignancies like acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and many other forms of cancer is that the world of science is still striving to fully ...
Oct 22, 2025
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