The investigators also plan to look at whether SIRT1 therapy could treat diseases already linked to aging,
faulty blood stem cells.
Not exact matches
Vitamin C may «tell»
faulty stem cells in the bone marrow to mature and die normally, instead of multiplying to cause
blood cancers.
Doctors can treat a patient by first getting rid of the
faulty blood - making
stem cells and replacing them with new ones.
Our physicians and scientists are working on a number of initiatives, including collecting
blood and bone marrow from patients to better understand the causes of bone marrow failure syndromes and MDS; exploring possible genetic factors that guide medical care; collecting
blood and bone marrow to identify specific proteins that are
faulty and how these defects relate to clinical complications and outcomes; and clinical trials to improve
stem cell transplants for disorders such as dyskeratosis congenita.
In that procedure, doctors use chemotherapy drugs to wipe out the patient's existing bone marrow
stem cells — which are producing the
faulty red
blood cells.