Anti-Aging Antibodies Rejuvenate the Immune System to Help Fight Pathogens
Depleting an aberrant cell population in the bone marrow could boost the immune system’s response to pathogens such as COVID and influenza.
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Never Tell Me the Odds: A first-hand account of blood stem cell donation
by Christopher Gerry
figures by Abagail Burrus
A few weeks ago, a nurse took six gallons of blood out of my left arm; my body only holds about a gallon and a half of blood, so I wouldn’t be here if she had decided to keep it. The blood that was…
Rabbit virus sinks teeth into cancer, aids bone marrow transplants
The myxoma virus is only deadly for rabbits… and potentially human cancer cells. Photo by Larry D. Moore. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
A common treatment for blood cancers, such as leukemia, is to replace damaged, cancerous…