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...well-preserved crime scene," says paleontologist Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, who examined the bones with scanning electron microscopy. Slashes across foot, ankle and elbow joints indicate tendons and muscles were deliberately cut. Skulls were smashed to remove the brains, bones were broken for the marrow, and in at least one instance a tongue was cut out. The markings, says White, were what you'd expect "if you were slicing up and down to cut the meat away from a turkey bone...
Using transplants of stem cells located in the bone marrow of healthy mice, researchers succeeded in getting diseased mice to produce correct versions of dystrophin...
...antelope jawbone suggest that the hominids used a sharp stone flake to remove the animal's tongue. The leg bone of another animal is scarred by cuts, chop marks and signs of hammering, evidence that it was scraped clean of meat and bashed open to expose the nutritious marrow...
Stauffer's off-the-field heroics helped earn her the award--she twice donated bone marrow for her brother Matt, a leukemia patient who passed away in January 1998. During 1997, she took a leave of absence, sitting out the soccer season to donate marrow for the second time...
...procedure. Used only with the most lethal cancers, it involves flooding the body with toxic chemotherapy drugs in an effort to overwhelm the malignancy. While the drugs do kill cancer cells, they also destroy most of the disease-fighting cells in the immune system. That's why doctors harvest marrow cells from the bones or stem cells from the bloodstream--both of which give rise to new immune cells--before they begin chemotherapy. When the treatment is done, these cells are reinfused into the body, in the hope that the immune system will rebound. Punishing as the therapy is, advocates...