Comment on Girl, 8, first UK transplant patient not to need life-long drugs in breakthrough
HubertManne@kbin.social 1 year agoyou know I did a search and saw those but was not sure it applied since the article specifically said bone marrow which made me think the other stem cells would not suffice.
Nashua@programming.dev 1 year ago
That may just be the reporter simplifying to match the newspaper’s target audience.
There are different types of stem cell, true. My guess is that they’re talking about hematopoietic stem cells (hence bone marrow), and those are also found in the blood stream and collectible through periphery donation. The first link actually talks about PBSC donation in terms of bone marrow transplants in the opening paragraph.