New bone-marrow technique offers hope to leukemia patients

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A new technique of bone-marrow transplant from a mismatched donor that have been conducted on 22 patients at the Foothills Hospital in Calgary, Canada, showed a success rate of between 20% and 30%. The technique, which was first developed by Massimo Martelli of the Monteluce clinic in Perugia, Italy, and Yair Reisner, who is an immunologist with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, is performed even though only 50% of the six immunological markers of the donor match those of the recipient. Between 1995 and 1997, the Perugia-Weizmann team conducted 43 mismatched bone-marrow transplants on patients who suffer from either acute lymphoid leukemia or acute myeloid leukemia.

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Canada: A new technique of bone-marrow transplant from a mismatched donor shows a success rate of between 20% & 30%

Canada, Health Care and Social Assistance, Surgical Transplants, Transplantation, Article

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First cloned primate born

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An Oregon Regional Primate Research Center scientist has successfully cloned a rhesus monkey. The breakthrough, which is the first cloning of a primate, may lead to discoveries that will remedy some human diseases.

United States, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Genetic Engineering, Research, Biotechnology industry, Biotechnology industries, Cloning

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