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View Post: Voluntarism or self-interest?
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View Post: A Spectrum of Severe Familial Liver Disorders Associate with ...
20 Nov 2009 by PLoS ONE  
Loss-of-function mutations cause critical telomere shortening and are associated with the bone marrow failure syndromes dyskeratosis congenita and aplastic anemia and with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Here, we sought to determine the ...
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View Post: Faculty member's child diagnosed with blood disorder - News
12 Nov 2009
After being diagnosed with a rare blood disorder, 5-month-old Miranda has to undergo blood transfusions regularly and will need a bone marrow transplant. Miranda is currently on 11 different medications, some of which have caused her to ...
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View Post: Hypoxia-Ischemia, Cerebral Clinical Trial: Intrathecal Stem Cells ...
23 Nov 2009
Patients will be stimulated 5 times and then harvest the bone marrow. Bone marrow will be processed in order to obtain hematopoietic cells (CD34+) and minimize the erythrocytes amount. A inoculum of 8 to 10mL of stem cells will be ... Stem cell-based strategies for treating pediatric disorders of myelin. Hum Mol Genet. 2008 Apr 15;17(R1):R76-83. Review. Eglitis MA, Mezey E. Hematopoietic cells differentiate into both microglia and macroglia in the brains of adult mice. ...
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View Post: Thornton mum backs donor drive after transplant saves son - Crosby ...
25 Nov 2009
Since they were very young, the pair have bravely campaigned together for people to join the Anthony Nolan Trust bone marrow register, after incredibly rare immune disorders left them both desperately in need of bone marrow transplants ...
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View Post: Adult Stem Cell Advances: Heart, Lungs, Cancer, More » cb.blog
27 Nov 2009 by Chip Bennett  
A study now published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine demonstrates that bone marrow–derived, multipotent mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) may have therapeutic benefits in treating lung diseases such ... Latest research has shown that stem cell therapy has the potency to treat more than 75 life threatening diseases including cancers, Thalasemia, Blood disorders, Immune deficiencies, connective tissue disorders and metabolic/storage disorders. ...
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View Post: Blood samples yield clues to help fight cancers auto immune ...
23 Nov 2009 by IANS  
Sydney, Nov 24 (IANS) A study of blood samples from patients of bone marrow transplants has yielded clues that could help fight cancers and auto-immu. ... Stem cell transplantation may correct rare genetic disorder in kids. Washington, Sep 18 (ANI): Scripps Research Institute scientists have offered new hope for parents whose children suffer from the rare genetic disorder 'cystinosis' by showing through an experiment on mice that stem cell transplantation. ...
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View Post: Pediatric Bone Marrow MR Imaging
1 Nov 2009 by Alvaro Burdiles, Paul S. Babyn  
This article provides an overview of the current use of MR imaging in the evaluation of pediatric bone marrow disorders, illustrating their appearance on commonly used MR imaging sequences. Recognition of normal developmental bone ...
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View Post: Gene mismatch influences success of bone marrow transplants ...
22 Nov 2009
A commonly inherited gene deletion can increase the likelihood of immune complications following bone marrow transplantation, an international team of researchers reports in the November 22 advance online issue of Nature Genetics. .... cardiovascular research, cancer, computational and integrative biology, cutaneous biology, human genetics, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, regenerative medicine, systems biology, transplantation biology and photomedicine. ...
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View Post: Science in Seconds: Omnipotent Future
1 hour ago by Science in Seconds  
They used adult bone marrow to derive the stem cells, then injected them into the lungs of the baby mice. The mice that had received injections were healthier, lived longer, and showed less damage in their lung tissue. This technique could make it to clinical trials in ... In fact, cord blood stem cells are now being used to treat over 40 diseases in children, including sickle-cell anemia, cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, and metabolic disorders like Hunter syndrome. ...
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