January 18, 2012
Nguyen Viet Anh, 5, before (L) and 110 days after getting a bone marrow transplant to treat epidermolysis bullosa (EB) at the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi Vietnam has become only the second country in the world to successfully use stem cell transplant to treat Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), an inherited connective tissue disease [...]
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November 2, 2011
Nguyen Viet Anh with blisters on the skin before the treatment (L) and after 40 days of getting a bone marrow stem cell transplant (R). Vietnam has seen its first successful bone marrow stem cell transplant to cure lethal skin blisters, saving the life of a four- year-old boy, a Hanoi doctor said. Nguyen [...]
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March 15, 2009
At Mekostem stem cell bank.LookAtVietnam – Stem cells are providing people with a greater chance to have their diseases treated and now the establishment of a stem cell bank in HCM City has narrowed the odds.But the service is only available to the rich and there are doubts in at least one mind that Viet [...]
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December 26, 2008
A University of Michigan lab has created artificial bone marrow that can continuously make red and white blood cells. This development could lead to simpler pharmaceutical drug testing, closer study of immune system defects and a continuous supply of blood for transfusions, the research team reported in the current issue of journal Biomaterials. The substance [...]
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