Thread: Making blood
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Old Wed Nov 10, 2010, 01:14 PM
Lisa V Lisa V is offline
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That opens exciting possibilities, Marlene, but their conclusion that it could make MUD BMTs a thing of the past seems like quite a leap. How would making blood from skin cells help that? They can already to autologous transplants, but I've never heard of one being done for AA or MDS.
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