Researchers Discover New Marker Derived from Human Umbilical Cord Blood

April 21, 2014

(News-Medical) – The development of stem cell therapies to cure a variety of diseases depends on the  ability to characterize stem cell populations based on cell surface markers. Researchers from the Finnish Red Cross have discovered a new marker that is highly expressed in a type of stem cells derived from human umbilical cord blood, which they describe in an article in BioResearch Open Access, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.