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
My youngest brother, Chris Landro, donated his bone marrow via surgery to extract it from the bones of his lower back.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
The researchers found no trace of the virus in samples of the man's blood, gut and bone marrow.
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
Her son was a blessing, and Laila was relieved to discover that her fears had proved baseless, that she loved Zalmai with the marrow of her bones, just as she did Aziza.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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