Bone marrow donation: there is an “urgent need to recruit new donors in France”
On the occasion of World Bone Marrow Donor Day, the Biomedicine Agency is widely inviting the French, and particularly young ...
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Bone marrow donation: why are we looking for male donors?
Bone marrow donations are used to cure people who have serious blood diseases. THE ESSENTIAL Essential to life, bone marrow ...
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Systemic Mastocytosis: Recognizing and Understanding this Rare Disease
Systemic mastocytosis is a rare disease characterized by an abnormal accumulation of mast cells in various tissues of the body, ...
Read moreSystemic mastocytosis: what are the symptoms of this difficult-to-diagnose disease?
Systemic mastocytosis is a little-known and rare disease. It causes an accumulation of cells in the bone marrow and can ...
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Myeloma: 90% of patients in complete remission thanks to a new immunotherapy
A new therapy based on the CAR-T-Cells technique gives hope to patients with multiple myeloma, with a complete remission rate ...
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Acute myeloid leukemia: the path to a treatment thanks to neighboring bone cells
In this blood cancer, cancer cells bind to bone cells. Targeting these with treatments would slow the progression of the ...
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How to donate bone marrow to save little Joseph?
Wrongly confused with spinal marrow donation, bone marrow donation is done by blood collection in the majority of cases. While ...
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Bone marrow donation: the Biomedicine Agency recruits 20,000 young people
This Monday, March 22, the Biomedicine Agency is launching a new campaign and is looking for 20,000 bone marrow donors ...
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Bone marrow transplant: new donors must not be older than 35
Since January 1, the maximum age for registering on the national register of bone marrow donors has been lowered by ...
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First “cured” of AIDS, the “Berlin patient” is in the terminal phase of cancer
The first man in the world to be cured of AIDS, the American known as the "Berlin patient" is currently ...
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Myelofibrosis, a rare and incurable disease of the bone marrow, increases the risk of Covid-19
The Covid-19 epidemic forces us to look at certain rare diseases to identify possible patients at risk? And this is ...
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Acute myeloid leukemia: efficacy of a combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy
Researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center show that combining immunotherapy and chemotherapy can reduce mortality in ...
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How blood platelets protect against the spread of cancer in the body
Researchers in Uppsala, Sweden, have just discovered an unprecedented function of blood platelets: that of reducing the spread of tumor ...
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Sickle cell disease, hopeful curative treatments
This Friday, June 19th is World Sickle Cell Day. Jacques Elion, teacher-researcher at Inserm, has devoted his research work to ...
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Leukaemia: “killer cells” programmed against malignant cells
By creating from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) and deleting a key gene, researchers have created "super" natural killer NK ...
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Autologous bone marrow transplantation, a hope for treating multiple sclerosis
Friday, June 5, a day of online conferences and workshops took place to learn about multiple sclerosis, a few days ...
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United States: the DNA of a man partially replaced by that of his donor
Chris Long received a bone marrow transplant to treat his leukemia. Four years later, analyzes show that his DNA has ...
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Leukemia: update on the disease
After meeting a leukemia survivor at an event organized on November 25 by the Capucine Foundation to raise funds, Why ...
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Myelodysplastic syndromes: scientists close to finding a solution
Myelodysplastic syndromes are thought to be linked to a dysfunction of a gene involved in the metabolism and oxygenation of ...
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Bone marrow donation: desperately looking for male donors!
The 13th national week of mobilization for bone marrow donation begins on Saturday March 10. An essential but less well-known ...
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Leukemia: donation can begin at birth
Blood can be collected from the umbilical cord at the time of birth. A major solution for the treatment of ...
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Lungs: factories that produce blood cells
The lungs aren't just for breathing. They are the site of the production of platelets, essential elements for blood clotting. ...
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Bone marrow donation: fighting against preconceived ideas
The Biomedicine Agency lacks bone marrow donors. She begins a campaign to shatter preconceived ideas about this donation, which is ...
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Bone marrow donation: a call to mobilize men
For the 12th edition of the Bone Marrow Donation Week, the Biomedicine Agency hopes to recruit men and donors from ...
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Bone marrow donation: recruiting young men is a priority
Of the 248,000 bone marrow donors, less than 4 in 10 are men. However, the more they are numerous, the ...
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Europe approves bone marrow cancer drug
The Swiss laboratory Novartis has obtained the green light from the European Commission for Farydak. It will be prescribed in ...
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A paraplegic walks with to an exoskeleton
American scientists have, for the first time, succeeded in giving back control of its limbs to a paraplegic patient. Exoskeletons ...
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The anti-cancer virtues of the myxomatosis virus
American scientists would like to use the virus responsible for myxomatosis to reduce the risk of relapse after a bone ...
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What is the bone marrow used for? Bone marrow has a vital role in our body, it is used to ...
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