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Could Stem Cell Transplants Save Japan's Nuclear Workers?

Scientists say Japan's faceless heroes -- the nuclear workers toiling inside the radioactive, quake-stricken Fukushima plant -- could get a life-saving boost from a procedure normally used on cancer patients: stem cell transplants. An infusion of blood stem cells can be used to boost bone marrow in cancer patients ravaged...

Report: Marrow Registry Spent Thousands on Sexy Recruiters

(Dec. 17) -- A bone marrow campaign went all out to make potential donors an offer they couldn't resist by spending $60,000 a week to hire models in short skirts and heels to ask people to sign up for the lifesaving registry, investigators say. But what the Massachusetts registry didn't tell unsuspecting do-gooders is...

Villanova, Rowan Football Players Get in the Game, Save Lives

A 2-year-old girl and a 59-year-old man, and their families, will have a happy holiday season because of the sacrifice made by a pair of young men who, as of Wednesday, neither had met. That the two young men responsible happen to both be star football players at small colleges located less than an hour apart (across...

Background on bone marrow

Bone marrow (Latin: medulla ossium) is the flexible tissue found in the interior of bones. In humans, bone marrow in large bones produces new blood cells.

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