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Transplanted cells may hold the key to curing hemophilia A, Einstein scientists report

Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have shown for the first time that transplanted cells can cure hemophilia A (the most common form of the disease) in an animal model. To do so, the researchers transplanted healthy liver endothelial cells from donor mice into a mouse model of the disease. Their findings also overturned conventional wisdom regarding which cells produce factor VIII, the crucial clotting protein that people with type A hemophilia lack.

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