Objective-To identify bi-potential precursor cells of erythroid and myeloid development in human bone marrow.Materials and Methods-Cells co-expressing CD13 and CD36 (CD13 + CD36 + ) were investigated by analyzing cell surface marker expression during erythroid development (induced with a combination of cytokines plus erythropoietin [EPO]), or myeloid development (induced with the same cocktail of cytokines plus granulocyte-colony stimulating factor [G-CSF]) of bone marrow derived CD133 cells in liquid cultures. CD13 + CD36 + subsets were also isolated on the 14 th day of cultures and further evaluated for their hematopoietic clonogenic capacity in methylcellulose.Results-Colony-forming analysis of sorted CD13 + CD36 + cells of committed erythroid and myeloid lineages demonstrated that these cells were able to generate erythroid, granulocyte, and mixed erythroid -granulocyte colonies. In contrast, CD13 + CD36 − or CD13 − CD36 + cells exclusively committed to granulocyte/monocyte or erythroid colonies, respectively, but failed to form mixed erythroid -granulocyte colonies; no colonies were detected in CD13 − CD36 − cells with lineagesupporting cytokines. In addition, our data confirmed that EPO induced both erythroid and myeloid commitment, while G-CSF only supported the differentiation of the myeloid lineage.Conclusions-The present data identify some CD13 + CD36 + cells as bi-potential precursors of erythroid and myeloid commitment in normal hematopoiesis. They provide a physiological explanation for the cell identification of myeloid and erythroid lineages observed in hematopoietic diseases. This unique fraction of CD13 + CD36 + cells may be useful for further studies on regulating erythroid and myeloid differentiation during normal and malignant hematopoiesis.