What is leukemia? - Danilo Allegra and Dania Puggioni
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-leukemia-danilo-allegra-and-dania-puggioni Stem cells found in the bone marrow are crucial for our health because they are needed to become...
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Despite advances in medicine, cancer remains one of the most frightening diagnoses patients can receive. What makes it so difficult to cure is that it's not one illness, but a family of over 100 diseases occurring in different types of cells. And one type of cancer has the unfortunate distinction of afflicting children more than any other type. This is leukemia, a cancer that begins in stem cells found in the bone marrow. A stem cell is a bit like an infant, undeveloped but possessing great potential. Many stem cells specialize and become cells of organs, like the liver, brain and heart. But in some tissues, they can continue to divide into new stem cells throughout development, and into adulthood in order to frequently generate new cells and...
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Despite advances in medicine, cancer remains one of the most frightening diagnoses patients can receive. What makes it so difficult to cure is that it's not one illness, but a family of over 100 diseases occurring in different types of cells. And one type of cancer has the unfortunate distinction of afflicting children more than any other type. This is leukemia, a cancer that begins in stem cells found in the bone marrow. A stem cell is a bit like an infant, undeveloped but possessing great potential. Many stem cells specialize and become cells of organs, like the liver, brain and heart. But in some tissues, they can continue to divide into new stem cells throughout development, and into adulthood in order to frequently generate new cells and...
