Bone marrow aspiration: Doctors will use a specialized needle to puncture one of the bones under anesthesia and withdraw a small sample of bone marrow. A specialist will examine the sample under a ...

More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first ...

This test removes a sample from your bone marrow to check the number of leukemia cells and looks for gene changes in the cancer cells. Lumbar puncture. For this test, your doctor removes a little ...

Diagnosis in each case was established by appropriate studies, including blood counts, bone-marrow aspirations and, when indicated, splenic puncture. Routine hemoglobin (photoelectric), red-cell ...

much more than the amount obtained from iliac crest aspiration or from simple puncture of the femur. We used four rats to compare the efficiency with which the bone marrow cells harvested by the ...

Bone marrow puncture is usually performed here in routine diagnostics in order to further investigate the malignant cells. Dr. Merz and his team were able to demonstrate that plasma cells from ...

For months, doctors in Michigan had been searching for a bone marrow donor for a 68-year-old African American patient. She had been treated for acute myeloid leukemia once before, but the fast ...

The new method was made possible by the multiplex imaging tool Phenocycler 2.0, which enabled researchers to visualize a record number of cellular markers within intact bone marrow tissue from ...

For many years, scientists assumed that blood production took place in the bone marrow. But now, researchers are showing it's also happening in the lungs. Red blood cells carry oxygen from the ...

For many years, scientists assumed that blood production took place in the bone marrow. But now, researchers at UC San Francisco are showing it’s also happening in the lungs. They found hematopoietic ...