Red blood cells. Credit: Children’s Hospital Boston By taking a deep dive into the molecular underpinnings of Diamond-Blackfan anemia, scientists have made a new discovery about what drives the development of mature red blood cells from the earliest form of blood cells, called hematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cells. For the first time, cellular machines called...
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Subset of stem cells identified as source for all cells in blood and immune systems
Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have identified a specific subset of adult blood stem cells that is exclusively responsible for repopulating the entire blood and immune system after a transplant. The discovery, to be published Nov. 1 in Science Translational Medicine, has the potential to revolutionize blood stem cell transplantation as well as the delivery and...
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New type of blood cells work as indicators of autoimmunity
A team from Instituto de Medicina Molecular Lisboa, led by Luis Graça, has analyzed blood samples from patients with Sjögren syndrome, an autoimmune disease that affects the mucous membranes and moisture-secreting glands of the eyes and mouth, and found that these patients have a significant increase in a specific immune cell type called T follicular...
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Scientists Discover New Types Of Blood Cells In Human Immune System
Researchers have discovered new cell subtypes in the human immune system. The newly-discovered cells — dubbed monocytes and dendritic — fall under the white blood cell class. Thus, technically scientists have found new blood cells in the human body. Human blood contains many types of cells, including components of our immune system. Primarily, there are three types...
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Where does your blood actually come from?
Blood cells. Scientists at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new understanding of how the first blood cells form during human development as they transition from endothelial cells to form blood cells of different types. Using a laboratory model of human stem cell development and by looking at the expression of blood cell and...