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Bone marrow registry launched in Nigeria – The Nation Newspaper


Bone marrow registry launched in Nigeria
The Nation Newspaper
Okoye said: “For instance, leukaemia and lymphoma are common blood cancers in Nigeria that can be cured with bone marrow transplantation. Around 1-2 million people suffer from sickle cell disease and some of them are qualified for bone marrow ...

Irradiated sterile cornea holds promise – ModernMedicine


Irradiated sterile cornea holds promise
ModernMedicine
Corneal transplantation is the most successful and the most common form of tissue transplant surgery, Dr. Daoud noted. In the United States, about 50000 corneal transplants are performed, and the same amount is completed overseas annually.

Researchers Take a Step Forward in Transplanting Pig Cells to Regenerate Human … – Science Daily (press release)


Researchers Take a Step Forward in Transplanting Pig Cells to Regenerate Human ...
Science Daily (press release)
The results of the research, published in The Journal of Immunology, indicate that these cells, characteristic of the innate immune system play an important role in the rejection of xenotransplantation (from another species) of porcine chondrocytes.

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IDIBELL researchers take a step forward in transplanting pig cells to … – EurekAlert (press release)


IDIBELL researchers take a step forward in transplanting pig cells to ...
EurekAlert (press release)
The results of the research, published in The Journal of Immunology, indicate that these cells, characteristic of the innate immune system, play an important role in the rejection of xenotransplantation (transplantation from another species) of porcine ...

Carrboro man to get stem cell transplant – Chapel Hill News


Carrboro man to get stem cell transplant
Chapel Hill News
BY ELIZABETH SWARINGEN, Special to The Chapel Hill News CHAPEL HILL - Three infusions of your own stem cells - each infusion over a 21-day hospitalization - can seem daunting. But, when it's your best chance for beating a recurrence of testicular ...

Pigs As Organ Donors? Maybe Someday – NASDAQ


Pigs As Organ Donors? Maybe Someday
NASDAQ
Although immunological challenges and other barriers associated with xenotransplantation need to be overcome, the results of preclinical transplantation of pig cells—eg, islets, neuronal cells, hepatocytes, or corneas—are much more encouraging than ...

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Birds In Spring: This Is Your Brain On Myeloma – The Myeloma Beacon


Birds In Spring: This Is Your Brain On Myeloma
The Myeloma Beacon
That's a question for many cancer patients and survivors, but it is particularly one for those multiple myeloma patients who have had at least one stem cell transplant. Getting a stem cell transplant is pretty intense. First you start treatment with a ...

Blood Drive Planned For Young Cancer Patient – KOCO Oklahoma City


Blood Drive Planned For Young Cancer Patient
KOCO Oklahoma City
Mia is battling cancer and remains hospitalized to begin a stem-cell transplant. Because her treatments are so aggressive, the Student Nurse Association at Northern Oklahoma College in Tonkawa will hold a blood drive in Mia's honor.

‘Clerical error’ costs eye hospital place in registry – The Hindu


'Clerical error' costs eye hospital place in registry
The Hindu
The Government Ophthalmic Hospital, Egmore, one of the major referral centres for eye care, has been left out from the list of recognised facilities for performing corneal transplantation in the State. Officials attribute it to a “clerical error.

Study Finds Donor Lymphocyte Infusions Are More Effective When Used … – The Myeloma Beacon


Study Finds Donor Lymphocyte Infusions Are More Effective When Used ...
The Myeloma Beacon
Results of a recent retrospective analysis suggest that donor lymphocyte infusions appear to work better when they are used in patients who have residual multiple myeloma than in those who have relapsed after a donor stem cell transplant.