Blood Research Group

There are many more cell types than you might think. In your liver, for example, the cells in one section may be different than those in another. But researchers have only a general idea of how stem cells differentiate into broad categories (like “liver”)...

Zebrafish help solve an evolutionary puzzle, and may help make blood stem cell transplants safer This still image, from an HHMI video about the work of the Zon laboratory, shows how blood stem cells are protected from ultraviolet radiation in zebrafish...

The Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) Blood Program invites applications for its 2017-2018 Pilot Grant cycle. The purpose of this funding program is to provide resources for projects in the field of blood stem cell biology with a basic, translational, or...

New technique raises possibility of making all types of blood cells to treat disease By Nancy Fliesler, Boston Children's Hospital Communications Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have, for the first time, generated...

Bone marrow from a young boy diagnosed with Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) shows a reduced number of erythroid precursor cells. In this case, an unusual gene mutation in the hormone EPO was identified and found to cause the anemia. Photo courtesy of Ekrem...

Red blood cells were successfully made via induced pluripotent stem cells from a Diamond-Blackfan anemia patient. Image: Daley lab, Boston Children’s For first time, iPS cells flag potential drug for blood disease By Nancy Fliesler Harvard Stem Cell...

Immature (undifferentiated) cells are on the left panel and cells that have differentiated in response to treatment with brequinar are on the right panel. Photo courtesy of Scadden Lab. Simple compound could provide first new therapy for AML in four...

HSCI codirector David Scadden has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This year 391 members have been awarded this honor by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to...

Photo courtesy of Vionnie Yu, Scadden Lab. Color-labeling helps Harvard researchers track the development and behavior of individual cells By Hannah Robbins Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have used a colorful, cell-labeling technique to...

Startup Magenta Therapeutics licences technologies from Harvard, MGH, and Boston Children's that could transform treatment of blood diseases and immune disorders Harvard University has completed a license agreement with Magenta Therapeutics, a new startup...