(HealthDay)—There is no evidence to support excluding patients with hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) from serving as blood donors, according to a review published online Sept. 13 in Hepatology.
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When a cancer patient needs a bone marrow transplant, there are four common donor sources: A matched related donor (sibling), a matched unrelated donor (from a donor database), a half-matched donor, or umbilical cord blood. ...
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Oxidative stress is a condition resulting from an imbalance between the generation of reactive oxygen species (i.e., molecules containing oxygen with an uneven number of electrons) and the ability of antioxidants (i.e., molecules ...
Scientists in Manchester, who have developed a stem cell gene therapy to reverse a fatal childhood illness, have agreed to work with a new therapeutics company to test it in a human trial.
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A study published in Science Translational Medicine performed at the Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories and UHN's Ajmera Transplant Center has proved that it is possible to convert blood type safely in donor organs ...
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Dear Mayo Clinic: Who can be a bone marrow donor? What's the process for becoming one?
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Two HIV-positive patients in the United States who underwent bone marrow transplants for cancer have stopped anti-retroviral therapy and still show no detectable sign of the HIV virus, researchers said Wednesday.
Jul 3, 2013
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It is new technology called "liver in a box," and it's improving outcomes for patients who receive lifesaving transplants.
Apr 20, 2022
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Currently, a lot is known about which genes are responsible for our individual blood groups; however, not much is understood about how and why the levels of the blood group molecules differ between one person and another. ...
Sep 29, 2023
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Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the pathways through which autoantibodies—immune proteins that mistakenly attack a person's own body—leak out of blood vessels and cause primary graft dysfunction in some ...
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