The team’s new device is a small plastic chip whose specially designed chambers are filled with human blood stem cells and the surrounding support cells with which they interact in a hydrogel to mimic ...

The School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Perelman School of Medicine, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia collaborated to micro-engineer a chip that models human bone marrow. Credit: ...

Scott Worthen, an attending physician at CHOP, Professor Emeritus in Pediatrics at PSOM and the paper's other senior author, proposed developing a model of human bone marrow and sending it to the ...

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For many years, scientists assumed that blood production took place in the bone marrow. But now, researchers at UC San Francisco are showing it’s also happening in the lungs. They found hematopoietic ...

Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8 ... count declined to 7000 per cubic millimeter (Figure 1). A core biopsy of bone marrow showed hypocellular bone marrow (cellularity, about 20 percent), with reduced ...