Scientists have mimicked an embryo's heart to unlock the secrets of how blood cells are born
- Written by: Robert E Nordon, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, UNSW Sydney
UNSW/Jingjing Li, Author providedStem cells are the starting point for all other cells in our bodies. The first such cells to be found were blood stem cells – as the name suggests, they give rise to different types of blood cells.
But there’s much we don’t know about how these cells develop in the first place. In a study...