Sentences with phrase «called myelodysplastic syndromes»

This form of sideroblastic anemia — refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts (RARS)-- is classified within a broader group of diseases called myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and can eventually lead to leukemia.

Changes in the genetic code (mutations) that reduce TET2 function are found in 10 percent of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), 30 percent of those with a form of pre-leukemia called myelodysplastic syndrome, and in nearly 50 percent of patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.

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The underlying reason is that Geron and partner Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) are developing a first - in - class telomerase inhibitor called imetelstat for the rare blood disorders myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and myelofibrosis (MF).

In a process called cellular reprogramming, researchers at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have taken mature blood cells from patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and reprogrammed them back into iPSCs to study the genetic origins of this rare blood cancer.

In addition, the cells in the blood and bone marrow (also called» myelo») usually look abnormal (or «dysplastic»), hence the name «Myelodysplastic» Syndromes.