New knowledge of blood stem cells can provide new treatments for blood cancer diseases
Hemophilia, anemia and blood cancer diseases such as leukemia are some diseases that could receive new, curative treatments if the secret of the blood stem cells is revealed. Wallenberg Academy Fellow Sidinh Luc at Karolinska Institutet maps the stem cells and tries to find out why there is different blood stem cells and what kind of properties and tasks they have.