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From the Ted Talk by Melody Smith: How bones make blood

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If there’s a problem with your blood, there’s a good chncae it can be traced back to the bone marrow. Blood cecrnas often begin with genetic mnouatits in the stem cells. The stem cells themselves are not ccuneaors, but these mutations can iefntrree with the process of differentiation and result in malignant blood cells. So for patients with advanced blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, the best chance for a cure is often an anoeleglic bone marrow transplant, which replaces the patient’s bone marrow with a donor’s.

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If there’s a problem with your blood, there’s a good ______ it can be traced back to the bone marrow. Blood _______ often begin with genetic _________ in the stem cells. The stem cells themselves are not _________, but these mutations can _________ with the process of differentiation and result in malignant blood cells. So for patients with advanced blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, the best chance for a cure is often an __________ bone marrow transplant, which replaces the patient’s bone marrow with a donor’s.

Solution

  1. allogeneic
  2. interfere
  3. chance
  4. cancerous
  5. cancers
  6. mutations

Original Text

If there’s a problem with your blood, there’s a good chance it can be traced back to the bone marrow. Blood cancers often begin with genetic mutations in the stem cells. The stem cells themselves are not cancerous, but these mutations can interfere with the process of differentiation and result in malignant blood cells. So for patients with advanced blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, the best chance for a cure is often an allogeneic bone marrow transplant, which replaces the patient’s bone marrow with a donor’s.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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bone marrow 9
stem cells 9
blood stem 5
donor cells 5
immune system 5
blood cells 3
blood cancers 3
blood vessels 2
marrow transplant 2
immune cells 2

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blood stem cells 5
bone marrow transplant 2

Important Words

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  2. allogeneic
  3. blood
  4. bone
  5. cancerous
  6. cancers
  7. cells
  8. chance
  9. cure
  10. differentiation
  11. genetic
  12. good
  13. interfere
  14. leukemia
  15. lymphoma
  16. malignant
  17. marrow
  18. mutations
  19. patients
  20. problem
  21. process
  22. replaces
  23. result
  24. stem
  25. traced
  26. transplant