Revealing the Secrets of Stem Cells Charlotte Titterington-Colman
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Discover how stem cell and bone marrow research at York could help improve the understanding of blood cell and blood cancer development.
Come along and find out how postgraduate research student Charlotte Titterington-Colman is comparing the response of healthy and cancer-associated stem cells taken from bone marrow to different cytokines – proteins that help control the development of blood cells. The aim is to understand whether patients with cancers such as acute myeloid leukaemia respond similarly to healthy individuals when it comes to blood cell production.
Charlotte, of the University of York’s Department of Biology, is also investigating whether responses vary when the stem cells are taken from different bones in the body. For example, does the bone marrow in the leg respond differently to the bone marrow in the arm?
Join Charlotte and find out how this research could help tailor stem cell transplants to individual patients and improve the effectiveness of stem cell transplants.
Image credit: Charlotte Titterington-Colman. (An image of stem cells with a mutation associated with leukaemia taken 10 days after treatment with a protein from bacteria.)
About the speaker
Charlotte Titterington-Colman is a Masters by research student in the Kent Lab in the Department of Biology, University of York.
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