Why we make blood cells in our bones
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-blood-cells-bones.html
The findings are published in Nature by researchers at the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Boston Children's Hospital's Stem Cell Program, and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. This new piece of the 'blood stem cell niche' puzzle will help the team improve the safety of blood stem cell transplants.
The inspiration for this study came from an incidental observation in the zebrafish, an animal model used in many laboratories.
