She will study how normal,
healthy bone marrow stem cells find a niche and how niche environment regulates stem cell functions such as self - renewal and differentiation.
For example, researchers found that
healthy bone marrow stromal cells, which give rise to bone, could strengthen bones and prevent fractures when injected into three children with the bone - weakening disease osteogenesis imperfecta.
In patients with leukemia, immature cells called «blasts» overtake
their healthy bone marrow.
Holy basil also reduces radiation damage to
healthy bone marrow and digestive tract cells, notes Deepak Chopra, in his book «The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook: Forty Natural Prescriptions for Perfect Health.»
Stem cells from
a healthy bone marrow donor are transplanted into the patient; in essence, the good cells replace the bad.