A groundbreaking UCSF study challenges the long-held belief that blood is solely produced in bone marrow. Researchers discovered that lungs contain active blood-forming stem cells, capable of generating red blood cells, platelets, and key immune cells. This finding could revolutionize stem cell therapies and transplant medicine by providing a secondary reservoir of these precious cells.
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