Latest Bone marrow Stories

NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- At a late January ceremony at New York City Fire Department headquarters in downtown Brooklyn, Howard P. Milstein, chair of the New York Blood Center (NYBC), joined Fire Commissioner Salvatore J. Cassano and Christopher D. Hillyer, M.D., President and CEO of NYBC, to add the names of six 2011 FDNY bone marrow donors to NYBC's "Honor Roll of Life." (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120208/NY50108-a )(Photo:...

A new study by collaborating researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and L’Institut du Thorax in Nantes, France, indicates that stem cells derived from cardiac tissue are far more effective in repairing damage caused by a heart attack than therapies using stem cells taken from bone marrow. The study, published today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine, suggests that human fetal cardiac-derived c-kit+ stem cells (CSCs) can be 30 times more potent than bone marrow...

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ThermoGenesis Corp. (NASDAQ: KOOL), a leading supplier of innovative products and services that process and store adult stem cells, today provided updates on two clinical evaluations involving its Res-Q® 60 BMC (Res-Q) system, a point-of-care platform designed for the preparation of cell concentrates from bone marrow. Speaking at the Seventh International Conference on Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease, Vijay Kumar,...

A study of the cells that respond to crises in the blood system has yielded a few surprises, redrawing the ‘map’ of how blood cells are made in the body. The finding, by researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, could have wide-ranging implications for understanding blood diseases such as myeloproliferative disorders (that cause excess production of blood cells) as well as used to develop new ways of controlling how blood and clotting cells are produced. The research...

University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have discovered new links between leukemia cells and cells involved in bone formation, offering a fresh perspective on how the blood cancer progresses and raising the possibility that therapies for bone disorders could help in the treatment of leukemia. The research, led by graduate student Benjamin J. Frisch in the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center laboratory of corresponding author Laura M. Calvi, M.D., is featured in the journal Blood. It...

Scientists with the new Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified the environment in which blood-forming stem cells survive and thrive within the body, an important step toward increasing the safety and effectiveness of bone-marrow transplantation. Institute investigators led by Dr. Sean Morrison asked which cells are responsible for the microenvironment that nurtures haematopoietic stem cells, which produce billions of new blood cells every day. The...

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ThermoGenesis Corp. (NASDAQ: KOOL), a leading supplier of innovative products and services that process and store adult stem cells, said today, it had received an initial order for its BioArchive(®) System from a new public cord blood bank that will begin operations in Canada in early 2013. Canadian Blood Services, a national charitable organization that manages the supply of blood and blood products in all Canadian provinces...

Wound healing requires complex interactions between cells resident at the damaged site and infiltrating immune cells. As healing progresses, the growth of new blood vessels is critical to provide nutrients and oxygen. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are cells that come from the bone marrow and are key to the production of new vessels, but the signals that direct their emigration from the bone marrow are unknown. In this paper, Toshikazu Kondo and colleagues at Wakayama Medical University,...

A compound produced from fish oil that appears to target leukemia stem cells could lead to a cure for the disease, according to Penn State researchers. The compound -- delta-12-protaglandin J3, or D12-PGJ3 -- targeted and killed the stem cells of chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML, in mice, said Sandeep Prabhu, associate professor of immunology and molecular toxicology in the Department of Veterinary and Medical Sciences. The compound is produced from EPA -- Eicosapentaenoic Acid -- an...

NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation founder, Jay Feinberg announces partnership with The Maccabeats, the hit a cappella singing group, to share the Miracle of Chanukah, in an awareness campaign during the holiday celebrated this December, entitled Miracle Match Campaign. Last year, The Maccabeats filled the airways and the news channels with their viral hit, "Candlelight," which has since surpassed six million views. One of...