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Growing blood in a dish; using stem cells to screen for breast cancer

Below is a summary of a couple Cell Stem Cell papers that offer map-fragments to one of stem cells Holy Grails: culturing the cells that give rise to blood. This could lead to more broadly applicable alternatives to treatments that now use cord blood or bone marrow transplants. This will become a formal highlight next week. 

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