During a bone marrow donation procedure, people will have a general or local anesthetic, so they will not feel any pain. After the procedure, someone may experience side effects, such as aches or ...

Some people live with conditions that stop their bone marrow from working as it should. These people often need a transplant to survive. To help, donors can give: cells from bone marrow peripheral ...

Stem cell transplantation (also called bone marrow transplantation) and gene therapy are among the most powerful curative approaches for blood diseases such as sickle cell disease, b-thalassemia, ...

Therapeutic antibodies selectively eliminated existing stem cells in mice while sparing gene-edited donor cells, offering a ...

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a form of cancer that leads to an atypically high level of lymphocytes within the bone marrow. Tests, such as a bone marrow biopsy, can determine how advanced CLL ...

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Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...