MHLW approves clinical research on autologous iPS cell-derived blood platelets
The doctor-initiated study will be conducted with one patient with aplastic anemia with platelet transfusion failure complication. Production of platelets are done from the patient’s (autologous) iPS cells through megakaryocyte cells, a method developed by Hiroyuki ETO of CiRA. In his method, hematopoietic progenitor cells are induced from iPS cells and in a complex procedure […]