CRI Scientists See Through Bones to Uncover New Stem Cell Data

A team of scientists led by Dr. Sean Morrison at the Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) has become the first to use a tissue-clearing technique to localize a rare stem cell population, in the process cracking open a black box containing detailed information about where blood-forming stem cells are located and how they are maintained. The findings, published in Nature, provide a significant advance toward understanding the microenvironment in which stem cells reside within the bone marrow. To learn more about this research visit: http://cri.utsw.edu/.