marrow
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To prepare for transplant, I had two weeks of near-lethal doses of chemo to destroy my diseased bone marrow and suppress my immune system, creating space for donor cells to take hold.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
In aplastic anemia, where the marrow stops making enough blood cells, and in inherited blood disorders such as sickle-cell disease, stem-cell transplantation has emerged as a curative therapy as the procedure has become safer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
It was the first time this had been observed in a cured patient's bone marrow and gut, he told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
In particular, the lower limbs appear to have been selected, and the bones were deliberately broken open to extract nutrient-rich marrow.
From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026
This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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