Hematopoietic (hee-MA-toh-poy-EH-tik) stem cells (usually just called stem cells) grow into all types of blood cells. The white blood cells fight infection, red blood cells carry oxygen, and platelets ...

iPSCs can be grown indefinitely, differentiated into any cell or tissue type in the body, and faithfully capture the genetic background of ... creating centenarian stem cells, we hope to decipher ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...