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What started as mysterious bruising quickly turned into a life-changing diagnosis for 10-year-old Kaia Julka. An active and ...

How Our Lungs Back Up the Bone Marrow to Make Our Blood Feb. 27, 2025 — Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion ...

A new trial in the United Kingdom has discovered a highly sensitive bone marrow test that could revolutionise ... but also ...

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In recent years, there has been a growing trend of an aging patient population and an increasing prevalence of age-associated diseases, underscoring the need for advancing research into the biological ...

Doctors told the family Kaia suffers from severe aplastic anemia, a disorder where her bone marrow no longer produces blood cells. It’s a one in 10,000 occurrence, and her only chance of ...