Call from Greenford sisters for more Afro-Caribbean bone marrow donorsThis is Local LondonLow numbers of African Caribbean donors on the Anthony Nolan register gives patients from that background just a 20% chance of finding an unrelated donor. She was…
The Idaho Statesman |
Charity helps families but also draws their ire
The Idaho Statesman Current and former board members say that in 2007 she wrote off $360,000 in loans she’d made to the foundation, so it could qualify for employee donations through the Federal Campaign and the United Way. Today she lives in a double-wide mobile home in … |
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Terrorist Claims Return Sept. 11 Suit to Spotlight
New York Times Last week, though, the case drew headlines when lawyers for the families disclosed that Zacarias Moussaoui, a former Qaeda operative now in federal prison, had told them that members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family had been major donors to the terrorist … |
The Indian Express |
‘Mummy, I promise to wear a mask, let me play’
The Indian Express Since there was no matching donor in the family, haematologist Dr Vijay Ramanan contacted the Bharat stem cell registry set up in Gurgaon and were able to zero in on unrelated but matching donors — one from the US and another from France. |
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Size of Biomarker Associated With Improved Survival Following Transplantation
Newswise (press release) Newswise — Among patients with severe aplastic anemia who received stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor, longer leukocyte (white blood cells) telomere length (a structure at the end of a chromosome) was associated with increased overall … Donor leukocyte telomere length linked to transplantation outcomes in aplastic …Healio |
Size of biomarker associated with improved survival following transplantationMedical XpressAmong patients with severe aplastic anemia who received stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor, longer leukocyte (white blood cells) telomere length (a str…
The New Indian ExpressDebunking the Myths about Aplastic AnemiaThe New Indian ExpressSuccess rates are better for patients who have donors that are matched siblings and worse for patients who receive their marrow from unrelated donors. The best and eas…
Rapid memory T-cell reconstitution recapitulating CD45RA-depleted …Nature.com… available HLA-matched related or unrelated donor.2 These patients must undergo HCT using an alternative HLA-mismatched source such as unrelated umbilical cord blood or c…
Allo-SCT for myelofibrosis: reversing the chronic phase in the JAK inhibitor era?Nature.comSeveral prospective multicenter studies have now confirmed the usefulness of RIC-SCT using related or unrelated donors for younger and older patients with MF. In…
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Cellular Dynamics Manufactures cGMP HLA ‘Superdonor’ Stem Cell Lines to …
PR Web (press release) HLA superdonors are individuals whose genetic HLA (human leukocyte antigens, or HLA) profiles make their cells or tissues more compatible for donation to unrelated patients—a concern that arises with organ or tissue transplantation and potential … |