Rejuvenation of Blood Cells, a Key Way to Fight Haematological Tumors

Scientists from the Instituto de Investigación Biomédica (IRB) and the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), in Barcelona, Spain, discovered how blood changes with age, and developed a methodology that allows tracking the aging patterns of cell-to-cell blood cells, which makes it possible to track their evolution. The finding opens the door to diagnosing and treating disorders such as leukemia and, in the future, also developing anti-aging therap…

More than 25,000 people are diagnosed every year in Spain of some haematological tumor (those affecting the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic system), whose overall survival is around 50%. It is a cancer type with a high risk of relapse, among other reasons because, because it does not affect an organ that can be removed surgically, the control of the disease is more complicated.