blood cells and stem cells

Stem cells are important to development of well everything. They are part of the immune system and when there is damage the stem cells will respond to fix that damage. they can be used to regrow a liver or fight off infection. These cells are being studied to find a way to grow new organs for patients that need them. In the time that the stem cells have been studied the questions of how blood came up. After studying 3000 single cell blood cultures it was found that the development of blood is two stages.The process is different between adults and children but the article is very unspecific about what is different between these stages. So it turns out that the mature blood cell are a direct daughter cell of the stem cell. This means that instead of like other cell types where stem cells mature into specific progenitor cells and then finally mature into functional cells. Skipping the progenitor cell makes the system much quicker.

Now that the system of blood development is more fully understood this could mean big changes in the way blood diseases are treated. We could theoretically supply patients with their own blood instead of with donor blood which would reduce rejection rates. The treatment options are endless and would really increase the patients lives.

Here is the article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151105143819.htm