Depleting an aberrant cell population in the bone marrow could boost the immune system’s response to pathogens such as COVID and influenza. Continue reading Anti-Aging Antibodies Rejuvenate the Immune System to Help Fight Pathogens
by Christopher Gerry figures by Abagail Burrus A few weeks ago, a nurse took six gallons of blood out of my left arm; my body only holds about a gallon and a half of blood, so I wouldn’t be here if she had decided to keep it. The blood that was continuously returning to my right arm, however, was missing an important ingredient: peripheral blood … Continue reading Never Tell Me the Odds: A first-hand account of blood stem cell donation
A common treatment for blood cancers, such as leukemia, is to replace damaged, cancerous bone marrow with donated healthy marrow. Marrow is the flexible tissue in your bones that contains stem cells that give rise to all the blood and immune cells in the body. When marrow comes from a donor, the donor’s and the recipient’s blood and tissue types must directly match. If not, … Continue reading Rabbit virus sinks teeth into cancer, aids bone marrow transplants