Learn about acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), its sneaky symptoms, aggressive nature, and how bone marrow produces defective ...

Stem cells can produce any other cell type, it is just a matter of telling them in the right way. From a biological ...

A recent study identifies Neural EGFL-like 2 (NELL2), a secreted protein, as a key regulator of bone homeostasis, offering ...

Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have discovered a previously unknown function of immune cells in the bone marrow. Embryonic macrophages—specialized phagocytes of the immune system ...

More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first ...

Bone marrow is a spongy material inside your bones where your body makes and stores blood cells. Damaged bone marrow makes too few blood cells and not enough cells for your immune system.

Multiple cell therapies deliver exogenous bone marrow stem cells into patients, which may trigger body repair machinery or regulate the endogenous stem cell population to achieve tissue homeostasis ...

For many years, scientists assumed that blood production took place in the bone marrow. But now, researchers at UC San Francisco are showing it’s also happening in the lungs. They found hematopoietic ...

“Because it’s toxic.” There are generally two kinds of stem cell transplants, which are also sometimes called bone marrow transplants or hematopoietic stem cell transplants: autologous ...

A bone marrow transplant, or stem cell transplant, places blood stem cells back into the body. The transplant replaces cells that cancer or treatments have destroyed. People may have a bone marrow ...

A bone marrow transplant process co-developed by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center is safe and curative for adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a trial ...