Tag: "bone marrow transplant"

Curing AIDS with a Bone Marrow Transplant

Curing AIDS with a Bone Marrow Transplant

Doctors announced in Berlin that a man who received a bone marrow transplant for leukemia was now also free of his HIV infection.

 
Dr. Barry Starr

Post on Nov 24, 2008 by

How to get away with murder

How to get away with murder

ABC, Yahoo! and others ran a story about a woman who had a liver transplant whose blood type ended up changing. I love stories like this. Not because of the change itself. Most likely, stem cells traveled from the new liver to the patient’s bone marrow. There, the stem cells set up shop and gave [...]

 
Dr. Barry Starr

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