Regenerative Therapy Using Blood-Derived Stem Cells

Blood has long been viewed as a conduit for therapy, stemming from the ancient days of phlebotomy to remove evil humors to the development of successful blood transfusions to replace missing blood components. The identification and characterization of hematopoietic stem cells by Drs. Till and McCulloch  revolutionized the field and soon after, non-hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells were chara...