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Blood-forming and esophageal stem cells: find, see, manipulate

Blood-forming stem cells have recently garnered some attention. Genzyme’s drug to boost circulating stem cells in patients with blood cancers won FDA approval on Monday. Here is Genzyme’s description of its small molecule chemokine receptor antagonist. Also, two research teams from Stanford have found ways to make artificial versions of the microenvironments where blood forms (See below), and a third team from Germany and Switzerland describes away to track individual blood-forming stem cells . 

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