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...matched precisely with the recipients' own blood. In Keone's case, though, his half-sister could not offer matching marrow. So his doctors decided to turn to more easily available cord blood. Consisting largely of immature stem cells, it does not require precise matches between recipient and donor...
...prepare for the transplant, Keone had to undergo nine days of chemotherapy. The object was to kill his bone marrow, the source of his sickled blood cells, as well as to neutralize his immune system so it would accept the new cells. These came from an anonymous donor at the New York Blood Center and were fed intravenously into Keone on Dec. 11 last year by Yeager and his colleagues at the AFLAC Cancer Center of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (formerly Egleston Children's Hospital...
...donor purchased Willa Cather's My Antonia and Lucy Gayheart, Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Grace Paley's The Little Disturbances of Man, and The Portable Dorothy by Dorothy Parker for $10,000 at Christie's auction house in October...
...guess the only reason not to donate would be out of fear, which is really stupid when it's put in perspective, when you compare that to a person's life," said donor John...
...idea for the AAB event came after member Solomon Liou '02 saw a call for minority-targeted bone marrow drives on the Internet. The request came from the Asian American Donor Program (AADP), a division of the National Marrow Donor Program, a California-based organization created to increase the pool of bone marrow donors...