Researchers decipher a key circuit in regulating genes involved in producing blood stem cells

This finding is essential to generate these cells in a laboratory in the future, a therapy that could benefit patients with leukemia or other diseases who need a transplant and who, in many cases, do not have a compatible donor.

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