Making the right cells from stem cells

Professors Andrew Elefanty and Ed Stanley and Dr Elizabeth Ng

Professors Andrew Elefanty and Ed Stanley and Dr Elizabeth Ng from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute are among the world’s leaders in the art of making human stem cells turn into blood cells.

The trio are long-term collaborators and study blood cell development in the embryo. Building on years of research, the Stanley and Elefanty labs reported the successful conversion of human pluripotent stem cells to blood cells that closely resemble the first blood stem cells that are found during early human development.

Read more about their research in Making the right cells from stem cells.

Listen to Andrew, Ed and Elizabeth’s stories as they share an insight into their research and their hopes to one day grow personalised, genetically matched blood and immune cells in the laboratory.


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