The infusion of bone marrow into a patient who has been treated with high dose chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Patients may use their own marrow, which in some cases has been frozen.
Little Javier, born this past Sunday, is the first "genetically engineered" baby in Spain to be both free of his family's hereditary disease and transplant-compatible with his older brother. His family decided to undergo a genetic pre-implant diagnosis treatment, hoping both for a second child, and a cure for their older son. The family, from Cadiz in southern Spain, had their first child, Andres, only to discover that he suffered from a rare hereditary disease called Beta Thalassaemia... Read Full Story
Capturing cancer stem cells: A new method allows scientists to grow leukemic stem cells from mice (in red) outside the body when supporting cells from the bone marrow (green) are present. The method makes it possible to perform high-throughput screening for drugs that target cancer stem cells. Credit... Read Full Story
DECEASED journo-blogger Adrian Sudbury's campaign to enable teenagers to receive compulsory education about bone marrow donation, has been growing since his tragic death in September.
MPs, Cancer Trusts and supporters have all been determined to keep Adrian's campaign message alive with his Give and Let Live resource for 16 - 18-year-olds.
Health Secretary, Alan Johnson and Education Secretary, Ed Balls have written to every secondary school urging them to use the resource so students have... Read Full Story
The MySQL community -- who create, maintain and support the leading free database -- are raising funds for Andrii Nikitin, a MySQL support engineer in Ukraine whose little boy, Ivan, needs a $400,000 bone-barrow transplant.
"My family got bad news - doctors said allogenic bone marrow transplantation is the only chance for my son Ivan.
"8 months of heavy and expensive immune suppression brought some positive results so we hoped that recovering is just question of time.
"Ivan is very brave... Read Full Story
I’m going to make a departure from the usual Brain Blogger content today to discuss an event that has arisen in my personal life which I wanted to share.
When I was in college, there was a student on campus who had leukemia, and the campus held a drive asking students to donate some blood to be tested as a possible match. Figuring it was the right thing to do, I went and volunteered. The techs drew a few vials of blood, and that was the end of it. Not surprisingly, that student didn’t end up... Read Full Story
