Advanced Map of Human Blood Stem Cells Could Guide Highly Targeted Leukemia Care
Thanks to an unusual application of game theory and machine learning technology, a large team of scientists led by experts at Cincinnati Children’s has published the world’s most detailed „atlas“ of the many types of stem cells and early progenitors involved in producing human blood from diverse donors. The team has identified more than 80 distinct subsets of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) – early-stage cells that kick off production of mature red cells, white cells and other elements of our complex blood system. Details were published March 21, 2024, in Nature Immunology. „We believe our highly focused capture strategy of the earliest HSPCs, intermediate cell states plus stromal populations, and the most abundant end states provides the deepest view of bone marrow stem and progenitor compartments described to date,“ the co-authors state. The study was led by co-first…
