Although hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) represent a minute percentage of the bone marrow compartment, they are known to reconstitute all blood-forming lineages. HSCs can also be found in the cord blood, which offers an easily bankable source that has already been proven in the clinical arena. More recently, a number of studies have shown that the bone marrow and cord blood host multipotent cells with the ability to differentiate into many different tissues. Certainly, MSCs are one such multipotent cell type, and perhaps the main component of the subpopulations selected for attachment Read the rest of this entry »