Fig. 2

Overview of current methods of inducing PSCs into blood cells in vitro and potential applications of PSCs-derived blood cells. Several differentiation methods have been developed to derive blood cells from PSCs in vitro at present: through the formation of EBs, co-culture with stromal cells and induced hematopoietic differentiation in a 3D-condition. The generated blood cells could be utilized in certain fields: (1) Drug discovery: developmental biology, host-microbe interactions, disease modeling and drug evaluation; (2) Medical treatment/therapy for clinical use, such as transplantation, personalized medicine and cell therapy