Scientists at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, have discovered a new method to obtain large numbers of hematopoietic stem cell from human term placenta.
The results of the study give a detailed account on quantification, characterization, engraftment capacity, and most importantly, practical way to obtain hematopoietic stem cells from placenta in numbers that are several-fold higher than could be obtained from cord blood.
Stem Cell Therapy Currently Used
Encyclopedia section of medindia explains in brief about the stem cell therapies currently used
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Serikov said, that more than a year ago, their team had for the first time reported that the human term placenta is a hematopoietic organ.
He said that in this study they have shown that human placentas could provide abundant amounts of CD34+ CD133+ colony-forming cells, as well as other primitive hematopoietic progenitors, suitable for transplantation in humans.
By using placental circulation and stem cell receptor blockade an abundant amounts of hematopoietic stem cell could be easily obtained in sterile conditions by non-destructive methods.
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have successfully edited the genome of human- induced pluripotent stem cells.
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