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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
- allogeneic
- interfere
- chance
- cancerous
- cancers
- 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.
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