What Does Bone Marrow Actually Do?
Bone marrow transplants are known to save lives, but how? What makes bone marrow so special? Bone Marrow Transplant Cures HIV?
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We all have bone marrow but do we even need it? Yes. Very much yes. Hey there skeletons hiding inside sacks of meat, Jules here for DNews! I’m here to talk about bone marrow transplants, but we have to know what bone marrow is in the first place. In our bodies, there are these super cool types of cells called “stem cells”. We’ve talked about them before, but in a nutshell, these cells have the potential to turn into other types of cell that makes up the human body. One of the places we have stem cells is in our bone marrow. Bone marrow is soft and fatty tissue that resides inside your bones and stores the stem cells that ultimately become blood cells. That’s red blood cells, which deliver oxygen throughout the body, white blood cells, which fight pathogens in your blood, like bacteria, and platelets which hel...
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We all have bone marrow but do we even need it? Yes. Very much yes. Hey there skeletons hiding inside sacks of meat, Jules here for DNews! I’m here to talk about bone marrow transplants, but we have to know what bone marrow is in the first place. In our bodies, there are these super cool types of cells called “stem cells”. We’ve talked about them before, but in a nutshell, these cells have the potential to turn into other types of cell that makes up the human body. One of the places we have stem cells is in our bone marrow. Bone marrow is soft and fatty tissue that resides inside your bones and stores the stem cells that ultimately become blood cells. That’s red blood cells, which deliver oxygen throughout the body, white blood cells, which fight pathogens in your blood, like bacteria, and platelets which hel...
