The findings could allow for new forms of therapy, such as for bone marrow diseases like leukemia. (sciencedaily.com)
«We hope that this will enable us to better understand and fight infectious diseases as well as bone marrow diseases such as leukemia,» says Carsten Riether from the Department of Clinical Research at the University of Bern and the Department of Medical Oncology at Bern University Hospital and the University of Bern. (sciencedaily.com)
So Izpisúa Belmonte and his colleagues harvested fibroblasts, which are far more common than stem cells, from the skin of people with the bone marrow disease Fanconi anaemia. (newscientist.com)