by European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Over the past three decades, efforts to improve the results of standard treatment for patients with severe aplastic anemia have been largely unsuccessful. The phase III RACE trial, sponsored by the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), published on January 6,...
by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Hematopoietic precursor cells: promyelocyte in the center, two metamyelocytes next to it and band cells from a bone marrow aspirate. Credit: Bobjgalindo/Wikipedia Aplastic anemia (AA) is a life-threatening bone marrow disorder caused by the autoimmune destruction of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). Currently, the condition is a diagnosis of exclusion,...
