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...initiative to hold a drive this year began, said Tambar, because one SAA member has an ill relative who is in need of a bone marrow transplant...
Students who attend the drive will take a simple blood test; their bone marrow type will then be recorded by the NMDP...
...fall of 1997, doctors told Alan J. Kuo '85 he had one month to live. The only thing that could save his life was a bone marrow transplant--and finding a marrow match was a challenge...
Things do not always end so well for similar cancer victims--especially minorities, for whom bone marrow donors are in short supply. That's why the South Asian Association (SAA) is holding a bone marrow drive today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Green Room at Loker Commons...
Anderson concedes that the historic gene therapy practiced on Ashi did not produce a cure, because the T cells made by her bone marrow still lack their own functional ADA gene. "Nevertheless," he insists, "Ashi does provide the proof of principle that if you put a correct gene into enough cells in a patient, you will correct the disease...