What strides are being made in the area of BMT research?
Research is being carried out in the field of bone marrow transplantation, which shows how they can be made safer and more successful. For children where a donor cannot be found, new technology means that transplantation is now possible from half-matched donors (usually parents) by permitting the collection of huge numbers of stem cells from the bloodstream, which can be purified before the transplant. The high number of pure stem cells can overcome rejection and avoid graft versus host disease.
