bone marrow

Investigators have found that infusions of a particular bone marrow stem cell appeared to protect gastrointestinal tissue from autoimmune attack in a mouse model.

Researchers from the Universities of Granada and León have shown that mononuclear blood cells from human umbilical cord can be an effective alternative to bone marrow.

This work, to be published in the journal Cell Transplantation, could potentially mean a great advance in regenerative hepatic medicine.

It is widely believed that tumor angiogenesis and cancer growth critically depend on circulating endothelial precursor cells, mobilized from the bone marrow.

A new study now suggests that a stem cell type supposed to be crucial for blood vessel formation and cancer growth does not actually exist.

Chronic inflammation triggers bone marrow-derived blood cells to travel to the brain and fuse with a certain type of neuron up to 100 times more frequently than previously believed.

Researchers discovered that the Notch signaling pathway, which determines the development of many cell types, and is also implicated in some cancers, is not universally essential for the maintenance of stem cells.

This indicates that inhibitors of Notch may not affect bone marrow stem cells.

Researchers have identified a gene that is responsible for the division and movement of marrow-derived, blood-forming stem cells, a finding that could have major implications for the future of bone marrow and blood cell transplantation.

Researchers have learned more about how a leading drug prevents certain types of arthritis from eating away at bone.

Precursors to bone-eating cells are a likely target of next-generation arthritis treatments.