The phrase
"blood progenitor" refers to a special type of cell in our body that has the ability to give rise to different types of blood cells, such as red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. It is like a parent cell that produces and nurtures many different blood cells that help our body function properly.
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Ribozymes developed in our research program have been developed to target HIV and these have been inserted into human
blood progenitor cells via a retroviral vector as part of a gene therapy program for the treatment of HIV infection.
By using genetic «signatures», we were able to compare
the blood progenitor cells responsible for overproducing megakaryocytes in our model, to progenitor cells in people with essential thrombocythemia.