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unusual facts about Stem cell transplantation



Alese Coco

In September 2002, she relapsed four months after completing her initial treatment and underwent an Autologous Stem cell transplantation (SCT) at UCLA in Westwood, California in December 2002.


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Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Recently, autologous stem cell transplantation using mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) has been used to improve recovery time from ACL surgery, especially for athletes.

George Daley

George Q. Daley, professor of hematology and the director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Children’s Hospital Boston

Transplantable organs and tissues

Stem cell transplantation was pioneered using bone-marrow-derived stem cells by a team at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center from the 1950s through the 1970s led by E. Donnall Thomas, whose work was later recognized with a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.