Rome's Bambino Gesù said Wednesday
that it has developed an innovative technique to transplant the
bone marrow from parents, which is never completely compatible,
to children with leukemia and blood cancers. The technique,
featuring the manipulation of stem cells, offers the same
probability of recovery as transplants from compatible donors.
It had previously been applied to some autoimmune and genetic
diseases. "It's an opportunity for a definitive cure for
hundreds of children in Italy and around the world," experts
said.
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