Items tagged with “leukemia”
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Improving the Odds: A New Method for Bone Marrow Transplantation from Mismatched Donors Restores the Immune System Faster
2009-12-07T00:30:23-04:00
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—December 7, 2009—Although bone marrow transplants have long been standard for acute leukemia, current treatments still rely on exact matches between donor and patient. Now, scientist...
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Making Transplants Easier
2009-09-15T17:36:50-04:00
Since diabetes is characterized by the increasing destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells, advanced diabetes may necessitate transplanting beta cells, the pancreatic islets where they are produced, or eve...
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Weizmann Institute Scientists Discover a Survival Mechanism for Blood Cancer Cells
2007-08-21T14:14:00-04:00
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—August 21, 2007—Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a type of blood cancer in which specific white blood cells, called B lymphocytes or B cells, build up in the blood, bone marrow, and lymp...
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New Hope for Kidney Patients
2004-06-01T17:17:00-04:00
Prof. Yair Reisner's latest achievement is growing tiny, functional kidneys in mice out of human stem cells. The trick to growing the kidneys is timing: too early, and the implanted cells grow into a mass of mixed ...