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DIED. ROBERT GOOD, 81, a founder of modern immunology who in 1968 performed the world's first successful bone-marrow transplant; of cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. His ground-breaking research (which landed him on TIME's cover in 1973) focused on methods of fighting infection, including identifying T cells and B cells, the main elements of the immune system. He was a founding member of the National Institutes of Medicine...
...Livingstone and his Greater London Authority - a €8 charge. Seven hundred cameras are recording all license plates, and those who don't pay are fined at least €60. You would think, judging by the public uproar, that drivers were being asked to hand over their bone marrow. A London law firm is seeking an injunction to stop the charge, calling it the "biggest single-tax increase in U.K. history." A rabbi whose synagogue is in the charge zone told the Observer: "This building was bombed in the war, but Livingstone is going to cause more damage than...
Students don’t actually donate bone marrow at the drive. Instead, they complete paperwork to join the National Bone Marrow Registry and give a drop of blood from their finger so they become potential donors...
...chance that potential donors will actually go on to donate is about 25 to 30 percent, said drive coordinator Adrienne Harrison. That will happen if a student’s HLA type—the type of tissue needed by bone marrow patients—matches that of a patient listed in the registry...
...bone marrow drive is not really like a blood drive because we’re not looking for quantity, such as a certain number of people to donate a certain amount of blood, but for a good quality donor,” Herrmann said. “We need donors who will stay committed, keep in touch and follow through...