A 15-year-old female received an unrelated three of six HLA antigen matched umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplant for refractory, relapsed T-cell ALL. Conditioning consisted of TBI, melphalan, and ...

From playing Uno to dancing with her sibling, you would never have guessed that just last year, 15-year-old Sabrina Couillard was fighting for her life. "I was getting really skinny. I was getting ...

The technique is seemingly gentler than traditional stem-cell transplantation, the only known way that people have been cured before of the virus that causes AIDS. Only 2 other people, both men, have ...

A woman in the New York City area appears to have been cured of an HIV infection, joining a small group of people whose recovery is providing researchers with road maps to beat one of nature’s most ...

MAYWOOD, Ill. – Umbilical cord blood and bone marrow transplants at Loyola University are curing or slowing the progression of many cancers originating in the bone marrow (i.e., leukemia, myeloma) or ...

Congress is working to provide an additional five years of funding to the federal programs which oversee donations and banks ...

Bipartisan legislation aims to secure over $280 million for bone marrow and cord blood transplant initiatives, providing hope ...

SEATTLE — Sept. 7, 2016 — Umbilical cord blood transplants may have advantages beyond offering an alternative stem cell source for leukemia patients without a traditional donor match, according to a ...

Two separate studies published in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (18:8), - now freely available on-line at www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/ct - have ...

A US woman has become the third known person who's gone into HIV remission, and the first mixed-race woman, thanks to a transplant of stem cells from umbilical cord blood, according to research ...

In the first few minutes after a baby is born, the baby’s umbilical cord (which carries oxygen and nutrients from the placenta to the growing fetus) is cut and usually discarded. But many people don’t ...