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More selective elimination of leukemia stem cells and blood stem cells
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More selective elimination of leukemia stem cells and blood stem cells

by University of Zurich Novel immunotherapy against leukaemia: Genetically modified immune cells (white) attack the cancer cells (orange). Credit: iStock/wildpixel Hematopoietic stem cells from a healthy donor can help patients suffering from acute leukemia. However, the side effects of therapies are often severe. A group of researchers led by the University of Zurich have now...

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Some blood stem cells are better than others

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – HEALTH SCIENCES In your body, blood stem cells produce approximately 10 billion new white blood cells, which are also known as immune cells, each and every day. Even more remarkably, if some of these blood stem cells fail to do their part, then other blood stem cells pick up their...