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 ...

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 ...

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.

Because it has the advantage of imaging the entire bone marrow compartment (unlike the situation with biopsy on aspiration), MR allows a better understanding of the distribution of skeletal disease.