Sentences with phrase «bone marrow donor»

Bone marrow donors at present have to provide at least a litre of material extracted from their bones in a painful operation.

We lead the fight against blood cancer by working with families and communities to recruit bone marrow donors to provide patients with second chances at life.

Now Aubourg and his team have showed in a preliminary trial that gene therapy stopped ALD in two boys for whom they could not find matching bone marrow donors.

For young AML patients with suitable bone marrow donors, transplantation offers the best chance of a cure.

Kan's goal is to achieve the same result without the need to find compatible HIV - resistant bone marrow donors — who are in vanishingly short supply.

The Cancer Center's unrelated bone marrow donor pool produces its first match.

The Hemapheresis Center now includes the unrelated bone marrow donor pool and human stem cell bank.

People who want to be considered as bone marrow donors register with The National Marrow Donor Program.

Jaden died because African American bone marrow donors are particularly hard to find.

In humans, a comparison of bone marrow from 14 normal bone marrow donors, 35 multiple myeloma patients and 11 patients with a noncancerous condition called monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) showed that Runx2 levels were significantly higher in the multiple myeloma cells.

«We still don't know how sleep deprivation affects us all, not just bone marrow donors.

Through this development, the Cancer Center can offer potentially curative bone marrow transplants to an increasing number of patients by using alternative bone marrow donors.

Embryonic Stem Cells: While bone marrow donor centers were being established in the 1980s, another stem cell family tree branch was developing that would draw much attention: Nearly 30 years ago, embryonic stem cells were isolated from early - stage mouse embryos.

An ideal bone marrow donor has a matched HLA type with the person who has SCID.

Actress Leighton Meester registered as a potential bone marrow donor on Tuesday (03Apr12) to encourage fans to sign up for the life - saving...

In the video, Jackson told Betancourt that he himself had never had the courage to watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy all in one sitting, Hill and Betancourt are organizing a special donor drive to take place in March and hope to break the word record (also something on Betancourt's bucket list) for the «most bone marrow donor signups in one day.»

Stem cells from a healthy bone marrow donor are transplanted into the patient; in essence, the good cells replace the bad.

Enter the amount of the fee paid for an initial screening to become a possible bone marrow donor, provided you were not reimbursed for the fee and did not claim a deduction for the fee on your federal return.

Nearly 12,000 people contract AML each year, according to the National Bone Marrow Donor Program.

It is nevertheless important to weigh the benefits of this pioneering treatment against the problems — X-linked SCID is a fatal disease and subjects without well matched bone marrow donors have no treatment alternatives.

Heard will only test the new therapy in cases where no suitable bone marrow donor can be found.

Kan's goal is to achieve the same result without the need to find compatible HIV - resistant bone marrow donors — who are in short supply.

With no bone marrow donor found, Drew's odds of recovery had plummeted from slim to the cusp of none.

And another of his half siblings, an importer in Chicago named Michael Gicewicz, volunteered to be the bone marrow donor.

This really started because once it was realized that cord blood could serve as an alternative donor for transplant, and also that it could provide access to people that needed a transplant but didn't have a match, it was logically used in children that were undergoing transplant to correct metabolic diseases and didn't have a bone marrow donor.

For that to be done successfully, a bone marrow donor match has to be found, and then chemotherapy given, before a person with the disease is ready to have donor bone marrow cells transplanted.

And just a reminder tonight is a Bone Marrow Donor Drive and Hang Dai Studios Signing at JHU with all the above folks PLUS Fred van Lente and Joe Infurnari and doubtless other luminaries.

Schwartz, S. H.: 1970b, Elicitation of moral obligation and self - sacrificing behavior: An experimental study of volunteering to be a bone marrow donor, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 15, 283 — 293.