Science News Online (7/17/99): References for "New ingredient completes marrow recipe"

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Volume 156, Number 3 (July 17, 1999)

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New ingredient completes marrow recipe

Researchers have successfully cultivated blood stem cells—the cells that give rise to all blood cells—over a long period in the laboratory for the first time.

References:

Yagi, M. ... and S. Bartelmez. 1999. Sustained ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells mediated by thrombopoietin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96(July 6):8126.

Further Readings:

Seppa, N. 1998. Making use of mismatched donor marrow. Science News 154(Oct. 26):261.

Travis, J. 1998. Bone marrow cells can build new muscle. Science News 153(March 7):150.

Sources:

Stephen H. Bartelmez
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Department of Pathobiology
4 Nickerson Street
Seattle, WA 98109