I find the process amazing, more so if it can be cascaded across many donors.
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HubertManne@kbin.social 1 year ago
Amazing but needing a bone marrow transplant from the same person who donated the organ makes this unlikely to become the norm. Its only stem cells they need so maybe if we can improve the stem cell reversion thing.
Syldon@feddit.uk 1 year ago
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 year ago
It could do… apparently live donors are about 30% of transplants now. In those cases it’s not a huge extra step to get some bone marrow.
HubertManne@kbin.social 1 year ago
I heard bone marrow is really aweful and requires a lot of recovery but maybe that is just the recieving end or something.
nikhil@beehaw.org 1 year ago
That was back in the day when it had to be extracted from inside the thigh bone. When I donated 10 years ago, it was a few injections upfront to increase your natural stem cell count in the blood, followed by a 4 hr at a clinic to extract them using a dialysis machine. The narrative about bone marrow being painful needs to die. It might be de motivating potential donors.
HubertManne@kbin.social 1 year ago
oh thats wonderful. Yeah I think I have holdovers from when the procedure first came out.