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  1. Norway Man Cured of #HIV With Brother’s #StemCells
    The Oslo patient is the first person to be cured by a family member's #bonemarrow transplant.
    The 63-year-old man appears to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from his brother, who turned out to have a rare #mutation that makes immune cells resistant to HIV. "Four years after the transplant, and two years after the man stopped antiretroviral therapy, he still appears to be free of the infection"
    gizmodo.com/norway-man-cured-o

  2. Dysfunction in chromosome-stabilizing protein identified as a cause of deadly illnesses

    New research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison reveals that dysfunction in a protein essential to maintaining stability in…
    #NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #biochemistry #Bone #BoneMarrow #dna #Genetic #geneticinformation #protein #research #Telomerase #Telomere
    newsbeep.com/au/254539/

  3. What is bone marrow biopsy?

    A bone marrow biopsy consists of taking a sample of the bone and analyzing it under a microscope after it has been fixed and stained.
    The study is slightly painful and is done under local anesthesia.
    A bone marrow biopsy allows you to check myelogram data for such diagnoses: bone marrow aplasia, the presence of cells in the bone marrow that are absent under normal conditions (leukemia).

    #biopsy #bonemarrow #Bonemarrowbiopsy #Cancerinvestigation

  4. "By using time-resolved analyses of scRNA-seq data, we determined the potential transitional trajectories of tumor cells and identified the metastasis-initiating subpopulations"

    link.springer.com/article/10.1

    Reading right now. The identification of cells that initiate #metastasis are of interest, although n=2 paired primary and #BoneMarrow samples may be a bit limited.

    #scRNAseq #tumour #Neuroblastoma #pseudotime

  5. When a DNA Test Says You’re a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away - After a bone marrow transplant, a man with leukemia found that his donor’s DNA traveled to unexpec... more: nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/dna- #dna(deoxyribonucleicacid) #geneticsandheredity #crimeandcriminals #forensicscience #transplants #bonemarrow