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Article: Israelis and Italians expand pool of bone marrow transplant donors
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- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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- October 22, 1998
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
10-22-1998
Israelis and Italians expand pool of bone marrow transplant donors
By Julia Goldman
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (JTA) -- A team of Israeli and Italian researchers has developed a technique that expands the donor pool for leukemia patients in need of bone marrow transplants.
The method, developed by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and Perugia University in Italy for obtaining and treating bone marrow, eliminates the need to find a close donor- recipient match.
Leukemia -- a group of cancer-like diseases of the blood cells affecting bone marrow and blood- forming tissues and organs -- is generally treated with strong chemical and radiation ...