An alternative procedure to traditional bone marrow transplantation may speed up
blood cell recovery in leukemia and cancer patients, as well as save donors the
trouble of going through surgery to extract marrow from the rear of the pelvic
bone. Patients transplanted with peripheral blood stem cells (PBSCs) also begin
producing infection-fighting white blood cells sooner, according to NIH studies.
M O R E . . .
It's Festival Time Again. The intramural research community gathered earlier this month for its annual fall classic, the NIH Research Festival.
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