Caption: Human bone marrow cells (left) were coaxed to become pluripotent, all-purpose stem cells (right) in a new study by a team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell researcher Igor Slukvin, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Slukvin's group turned banked healthy and diseased human bone marrow into blank-slate stem cells, which have potential use in therapy and could become a powerful laboratory model, as the new induced cells made from diseased marrow carry the same genetic mutations that cause the blood cancer chronic myeloid leukemia.
Photo: courtesy Kejin Hu, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
Date: 2011
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