During 50-60s of the last century, it was known from the animal experiments that there must be hematopoietic stem cells existing in vivo and believed that the effective bone marrow transplant is actually the stem cell transplantation.
20世纪50-60年代一些聪明设计的动物实验有力地暗示造血干细胞在体内的存在,动物研究又证实正常骨髓可以修复已严重破坏的骨髓,于是人们开始相信骨髓移植就是造血干细胞移植。 培养造血祖细胞集落的陆续发现证明造血祖细胞的存在。