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National Geographic : 2005 Jul
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hoping for a cure Eleven-year-old David Dalmat waits in a Paris hospital for a bone marrow transplant to treat his sickle-cell anemia. In use for decades, such transplants are an example of an "adult" stem cell therapy in which stem cells in donated bone marrow regenerate a patient's blood and immune sys tem. To thwart his disease-and fend off the risk of rejection David's own bone marrow has been wiped out by radiation and chemotherapy. Until it's regrown, he's a "boy in a bubble," isolated from a microbe-infested world. STEM CELLS 5
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