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Dr. Catherine Vandorna. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion spokesperson

This is how the bone marrow reacts to injuries and infections

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Dr. Kathryn Vandorna from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion has developed a new method that allows the monitoring of the formation of immune blood cells in the bone marrow. For this purpose, she used tiny magnetic particles of iron oxide, which
Bone marrow cells of a blood cancer patient. Source: VashiDonsk / Wikimedia.

Can a certain diet replace chemotherapy?

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This is how sleep affects the migration of stem cells in the context of bone marrow donation. Illustration: Dima Abelsky

A new study points to the importance of sleep for the success of bone marrow transplants

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Prostaglandins keep the stem cells young by increasing the expression of an inhibitory substance from mesenchymal cells in the bone marrow. The protein colored green (left) is a marker for mesenchymal cells. The inhibitor is colored red (center). Right: combined coloring of the two materials. It can be seen that treatment with prostaglandins (bottom row) increases the expression of the inhibitory substance. Illustration: Prof. Zvi Lapidot, Weizmann Institute

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