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Engineered tissue could eliminate radiation for bone marrow transplants

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Engineered bone with functional marrow. [Image courtesy Varghese lab, UC San Diego]
University of California San Diego engineers have created artificial bone tissue that could eliminate the need for radiation before bone marrow transplants.

Shyni Varghese, a bioengineering professor at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, led a team to develop a bone-like implant to eliminate the pre-treatment radiation that kills stem cells in a patient’s bone marrow to make room for new marrow. The newly engineered bone tissues give donor cells space room to live and grow without having to compete with pre-existing host cells, which means the patient doesn’t have to undergo any radiation.

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