08 March 2026
Growing Marrow
After birth our blood cells, red cells and the immune system's white cells, are generated (from stem cells) in the bone marrow – the process of haematopoieis. Here, researchers have created a model (dubbed comBO) of blood cell production, lab-grown from stem cells, that faithfully mimics the necessary complexity of the bone marrow for analysing blood cells in health (as pictured left, different cells highlighted in different colours) and in diseases such as leukaemia and myeloma (right)
Read the published research article here
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- Image from work by Yuqi Shen and colleagues
- MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine and National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Cell Stem Cell, March 2025
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