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...scientist from Harvard Medical School (HMS) has helped develop a technique for increasing the number of stem cells in mice, an advance which could ease bone marrow transplants for cancer patients and improve recovery from injury...
Stem cells play a key part in bone marrow transplants, but because the cells reproduce in small numbers within the body, there aren’t enough naturally-produced stem cells for patients who need them...
...Limiting numbers [of stem cells] has been a problem in bone marrow transplants and in trying to expand their use,” said David Scadden, associate professor of medicine at HMS and one of the researchers involved with the study. “Getting more stem cells is key, or needing fewer transplants...
...Laura Calvi of the University of Rochester Medical School and Gregor Adams of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. The project combined Scadden’s interest in the interaction between stem cells and other cells with Calvi’s research on the relationship between bone and bone marrow...
...researchers discovered that parathyroid hormone (PTH), an FDA-approved hormone for treating osteoporosis, had the same effect as the mice’s protein, increasing the number of stem cells. Mice treated with PTH who underwent bone marrow transplants had a 100 percent survival rate in the study...