We want to understand how stem cells make this decision to differentiate or stay stem cells. What signals do they get? These are big questions, difficult questions, and we need to answer them. These are...

Right now, the techniques for gene therapy are kind of brute force. You put the gene in and hope it goes into the right place. There’s no selection. What we would like to do is...

There are some immediate experiments to see if we can use the same cocktails of growth factors to expand cord blood cells or human stem cells.

This would increase the chance of getting a good transplant.