Colorful clones: Researchers track development and behavior of individual blood stem cells

(Harvard Medical School) Two independent research teams, one led by David Scadden, HSCI co-director and Gerald and Darlene Jordan Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, and the other by his colleague Leonard Zon, HSCI Executive Committee member and director of the Stem Cell Program at Boston Children's Hospital, adapted a color-based, cell labeling technique to the blood system to better understand how blood stem cells behave.