title: Stem cells: what's happening? Current concepts and recent advances.
abstract: Allogeneic haemopoietic stem cells, as alternative to bone marrow transplantation and platelet therapy remains the focus of the current area of research/development in transfusion science/medicine. This brief progress report on "Stem Cells: What's Happening?" is focused on the advances and some unresolved problems associated with cellular therapy and haemopoietic progenitor cells from various sources.
authors.affiliation: North London Blood Tranfusion Centre, U.K.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Seghatchian
mesh_terms: D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D005544:Forecasting; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous