More articles about: Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT)

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Avoiding Crowds is Nothing New for 10-Year-Old with Bone Marrow Disease

A rare childhood bone marrow disease made social distancing a requirement for one patient to mitigate the risk of infection long before COVID-19 required it of everyone.
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A Protein’s Surprising Role Offers Clues to Limit Graft-vs.-Host Disease

While it plays a protective role in other diseases, knocking out NLRP6 in mice led to better outcomes, less-severe symptoms after bone marrow transplant.
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U-M Coach Stays in the Game Thanks to Bone Marrow Transplant

Joining the bone marrow registry is the first step to being the cure for patients with blood cancers like leukemia
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Solving a Grave Complication of Bone Marrow Transplants

See the latest research on graft vs host disease (GVHD), including new ways to prevent and treat this potentially fatal side effect of stem cell transplants.
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Baby Becomes 22nd Registered Case of Rare Disease ‘NEMO’

Meet 6 month old Elias, the 22nd registered case of a rare immunodeficiency disease called NEMO, and find out how a bone marrow donor match could save his life.
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Students Promote Lifesaving Power of Organ and Tissue Donation

In advance of a yearly registration event, two U-M students — a bone marrow recipient and the daughter of a heart transplant patient — work to increase donor awareness.
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How a Healthy Gut Could Lead to Better Bone Marrow Transplants

A study at the University of Michigan suggests we can prevent graft-versus-host disease by bolstering the amount of the microbiome-derived metabolite butyrate.