Word: marrowed
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Folkman said. "But you're forced to stop and rescue the bone marrow...
...little storytelling couldn't fix. When he lost his notes in Africa, he reported that a family of monkeys had stolen them while he'd looked on, transfixed. When he contracted AIDS, he told even his closest friends that he had an "extremely rare" fungus of the bone marrow, known to be transmitted only from China or from the corpse of a killer whale. Six months before his death, at 48, even his brother didn't know that he was mostly homosexual. He was "out to seduce everybody," as a close friend remarked, and he didn't like to fail...
Roosevelt knew in the marrow of his bones, from his own struggle with polio and his innate grasp of the American temper, that restoring optimism was the beginning of progress. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" was both the way he led his life and the way he led our nation...
...year ago last week, Keone, now 13, became the first sickle-cell patient to receive a transplant of blood cells from the umbilical cord of a newborn infant. In effect, he got a new bloodmaking system. Other young sickle-cell patients have undergone transplants, but these involved bone-marrow cells and had to be 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...
...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...