Immortalized Stem Cells for Growing Blood
May 16, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
Strategies for growing blood from stem cells have proved only marginally successful, because even
stem cells show the reproductive restriction known as the Hayflick limit. Tissue engineers at the University of Bristol may have found a solution for the continuous expansion of hematopoietic stem cells into blood. The used the papilloma virus HPV16-E6/E7 to tranduce CD 34+ cells. The cells lived and did not express any toxic proteins. MORE
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