Canadian discovery in blood stem cell research

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Canadian scientists have isolated a human blood stem cell in

its purest form - as a single stem cell capable of

regenerating the entire blood system.

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Dr. Dick, who pioneered the field of cancer stem cells with

previous discoveries in human leukemia and colon cancer,

also developed a way to replicate the entire human leukemia

disease process using genetically engineered mice.

As well as being a Senior Scientist at UHN's Princess

Margaret and Toronto General Hospitals, he is a Professor in

the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto,

and Director of the Cancer Stem Cell Program at the Ontario

Institute for Cancer Research.

This discovery is the one Dr. Dick has personally been

seeking ever since 1988 when he developed the first means of

studying human blood stem cells by transplanting them into

immune-deficient mice, research that was also published in

Science. " Back then, our goal was to define single human

stem cells. With advances made in technology, twenty-three

years later, we have. "

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Article:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-pure-human-blood-stem-cell-discovery.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/3km6pmf

Abstract: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6039/218