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It is a fact that when our organs or tissues are injured, our bone marrow releases stem cells into our circulation.
We have adult stem cells throughout our body; we use those in bone marrow transplantation.
If we take our own bone marrow cells and treat a patient with a heart attack, we can see much improved heart function and better survival using our own bone marrow derived cells after a heart attack.
I invented a device called the MarrowMiner, a much less invasive way for harvesting bone marrow.
Hopefully you can appreciate the device going through the patient's body removing bone marrow, not with 200 punctures, but with a single puncture, under local anesthesia.
And he took skin cells, healthy skin and cancerous bone marrow, and sequenced the whole genomes of both of them in a couple of weeks, no big deal.
And so this informs, among other things, of course, a treatment for bone marrow transplant, which he undertakes.
Mice with multiple myeloma, an incurable malignancy of the bone marrow, respond dramatically to the treatment with this drug.
So Noam and I had this insight that if we want our students to understand how computers work, and understand it in the marrow of their bones, then perhaps the best way to go about it is to have them build a complete, working, general-purpose, useful computer, hardware and software, from the ground up, from first principles.
So in this picture, you can see the middle of the leg, so the bone marrow, then you can see the original bone, and you can see where that original bone finishes, and just to the left of that is the new bone that's grown within that bioreactor cavity, and you can actually make it even larger.
We took patients with multiple sclerosis and asked a simple question: Would stem cells from the bone marrow be protective of their nerves?
So what we did was we took this bone marrow, grew up the stem cells in the lab, and then injected them back into the vein.
Here's a set of bone marrow biopsy tools.
These are actually used to burrow into the bone and collect bone marrow or sample bone lesions.
Leukemia is a form of cancer that affects your bone marrow.
Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside your bones where your blood cells are created.
In leukemia, some of the cells inside your bone marrow grow uncontrollably, crowding out the healthy stem cells that form your blood cells.
Curie died in 1934 of a bone marrow disease, which many today think was caused by her radiation exposure.
The immune system relies on millions of defensive white blood cells, also known as leukocytes, that originate in our bone marrow.
Or they'll put male cells in a female body or vice versa, which sounds absolutely horrible until you realize, the reason you're doing that is you're substituting bone marrow during cancer treatments.
So by taking somebody else's bone marrow, you may be changing some fundamental aspects of yourself, but you're also saving your life.
A hundred years ago, people would have thought it was ludicrous how normal and ordinary it is for people to donate their blood and bone marrow to complete strangers today.
Is it possible that a hundred years from now people will think that donating a kidney to a stranger is just as normal and ordinary as we think donating blood and bone marrow is today?
Two years ago, my younger sister came out of remission from a rare blood cancer, and the only treatment left for her was a bone marrow transplant.
You destroy all the bone marrow in the cancer patient with massive doses of chemotherapy, and then you replace that marrow with several million healthy marrow cells from a donor.
I also learned that bone marrow transplants are fraught with danger.
What if we left the bone marrow transplant up to the doctors, but did something that we later came to call our "soul marrow transplant?"
I sent her a cartoon from its pages as a way of explaining why we should visit a therapist before having my bone marrow harvested and transplanted into her body.
And I told her that after the transplant, all of the blood flowing in her veins would be my blood, made from my marrow cells, and that inside the nucleus of each of those cells is a complete set of my DNA.
A health crisis makes people do all sorts of risky things, like quitting a job or jumping out of an airplane and, in the case of my sister, saying "yes" to several therapy sessions, during which we got down to the marrow.
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