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...October of 1997, the Chinese Students Association spearheaded a collection of Asian students' blood to donate to the national marrow donor pool...
...catalyst for the drive came when Alan Kuo '95, an Asian American Harvard alumni, needed a bone marrow donor to save his life...
Because the donated marrow must have an almost exact genetic match with the patient, it usually requires that the donor come from the same ethnic group as the recipient...
This blood is sent to a national database. If the marrow matches that of a patient seeking a transplant, the donor will receive a call and be asked to undergo a bone marrow extraction...
...principle, why there should be any problem, provided that...the academics can handle it sensibly and be able to deal with the narrow nationalisms that can exist, including, sometimes, [with] the donors. That can be a problem when a donor says [for example], this has to go to a Greek-loving Greek or a Turk-loving Turk," Alexiou says...