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For example, the blood cells in our bodies—red cells, white cells, and platelets—start out as hematopoietic blood-forming stem cells in bone marrow, the spongy inner part of our bones.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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These nodules turned out to be colonies of cells all derived from a single blood-forming cell.
A Q&A with Morton A Meyers about Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs 2010
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Ms. Price is now in the hospital following her bone marrow transplant to treat myelodysplastic syndrome, a form of cancer that occurs when blood-forming cells in the bone marrow are damaged.
A Financial Incentive for Better Bedside Manner Laura Landro 2011
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Umbilical blood contains one of the richest known sources of blood-forming stem cells—cells that can be stored away in cryobanks and used for a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia in the future, an intensely precious resource often flushed down a sink in hospitals after childbirth.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In parallel, I have its “twin” plate—containing two hundred normal human blood-forming stem cells, with the same panel of chemicals added to every well.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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-- Peripheral blood stem cell donation: The donor receives injections of filgrastim, which may cause flulike symptoms, for five days to increase blood-forming cells.
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Blood is drawn from the arm using a sterile needle and passes through a machine that extracts blood-forming cells.
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For most chemotherapy drugs, that dose limit rested principally on a single organ—the bone marrow, whose whirring cellular mill, as Farber had found, was so exquisitely sensitive to most drugs that patients administered drugs to kill cancer were left with no normal blood-forming cells.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Under normal conditions, only a fraction of these blood-forming stem cells are active; the rest are deeply quiescent—asleep.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The entirety of human blood, for instance, can arise from a single, highly potent blood-forming stem cell called a hematopoietic stem cell, which typically lives buried inside the bone marrow.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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