Work in the Yarmush Lab Published in PNAS

Research performed in the laboratory of Professor Martin Yarmush in collaboration with researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Bergen in Norway, on the development of subcutaneous implants of nanoscale hydrogel scaffolds coated with human bone marrow stromal cells as artificial bone marrow cavities, was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It is anticipated that this ectopic bone marrow system will be useful for the study of cancer cells during engraftment and retention in bone marrow, a common metastatic site. The full paper describing this work can be found in Proc Nat'l Acad Sci 2012; 109: 19638-19643.