Bone marrow is the soft, fatty tissue inside large bones like the hip and thigh bones. It develops the body's red blood cells that carry oxygen, white blood cells that fight infections ...

Every three minutes, an American is diagnosed with some type of blood cancer and every nine minutes, an American is lost.

San Francisco–based Ossium Health has carried out three transplants for cancer patients using stem cells from deceased donors’ bone marrow in recent months.

Samdani, A. F., C. Paul, R. R. Betz, I. Fischer, B. Neuhuber. 2009. Spine. 34(24):2605-2612. Grafting of bone marrow stromal cells into spinal cord injury: A ...