Artificial Bone Marrow Supports Blood Stem Cells for Disease Modelling and Drug Discovery

Scientists in Basel, Switzerland, have created an artificial tissue that mimics some of the biological properties of natural bone marrow niches and can support stem and progenitor cell replication over several days. The researchers, headed by Ivan Martin, Ph.D., at the University of Basel’s department of medicine and University Hospital Basel, and Timm Schroeder, Ph.D., at the department of biosystems science and engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETZ), hop