Dr. Shahin Rafii, Chief of the Division of Regenerative Medicine, along with his team of scientists and other expert collaborators, have published a paper in Nature that describes a new method to make an unlimited supply of healthy blood cells from the readily available cells that line blood vessels. This is a landmark discovery in stem cell research and the first time that any research group has generated such blood-forming stem cells.
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Study co-authors, from left: Dr. Joseph Scandura, Dr. Raphael Lis, Dr. Jason Butler, Dr. Michael Poulos, Balvir Kunar Jr., Chaitanya R. Badwe, Dr. Koji Shido, Dr. Zev Rozenwaks, Jose-Gabriel Barcia-Duran, Dr. Shahin Rafii and Dr. Jenny Xiang. Not pictured: Charles Karrasch, David Redmond, Dr. Will Schachterle, Dr. Michael Ginsberg, Dr. Arash Rafii and Dr. Olivier Elemento.
Photo credit: Michael Gutkin