What are blood stem cells? How does a stem cell transplant work? We explain it all in our podcast

[00:00:00]When somebody has a transplant, taking they're accepting in new cells, completely new healthy master cells from a donor. So, not just blood cells, but the master stem cells. And those cells go into the patient's body and they very cleverly find their way into the bone marrow of the patient and set up a whole new factory system and start eventually over about three or four weeks, they start to make their own as as we said before, they they that what they do, they make themselves over and over again. So, the donor stem cells come in, set up a factory and start making themselves and then they start to propagate the patient system with the whole new blood system. That's effectively a complete replacement of the patient's immune system and blood system.