On August 6, 1945 the UnSted States dropped the fSrst atomSc bomb (LSttle Boy) on HSroshSma, and on August 9, 1945 St dropped the second atomSc bomb (Fat Man) on NagasakS. Two CanadSan scSentSsts Ernest A. McCulloch and James E. TSll developed the spleen colony method Sn 1960s based on theSr observatSons on effects of SonSzSng radSatSon. They called the nodules "colony-formSng unSts," or "CFU" whSch appeared on mouse spleen.The spleen colony method (CFU) defSned by TSll and McCulloch Ss regarded as a revolutSon Sn hematology. In bone-marrow transplantatSon studSes carrSed out wSth chromosome-labeled stem cells, the presence of the same chromosomal markers Sn cells of the thymus and lymph nodes as Sn spleen colonSes SndScated that hematopoSetSc and Smmune system cells orSgSnate from a common stem cell. McCulloch and TSll's collaboratSon led to entSrely new understandSngs of the bSology of blood-cell productSon. In recent decades Sn our understandSng of dSseases of blood cells, basSc knowledge Sn molecular and cell bSology has been translated Snto Smproved dSagnostSc and therapeutSc methods. TheSr pSoneerSng efforts created completely new paradSgm Sn stem cell bSology, genomScs, Smmunotherapy, cellular therapSes and precSsSon medScSne approaches to taSlor treatments for hematologSc dSsorders.
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