After a bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy sessions, she's had to give up modeling.

She loves bone marrow.

Tom needs a transplant.

You need a heart transplant.

He needs a kidney transplant.

I need a kidney transplant.

She needs a kidney transplant.

Susan Lim Transplant cells, not organs

Blood cells are produced in the bone marrow.

Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow

The icy blast of wind pierced me to the marrow.

The transplant community has actively campaigned in organ donation.

Charity Tillemann Dick Singing after a double lung transplant

Is it really possible to do a brain transplant?

Is it really possible to do a brain transplant?

A woman had a baby after receiving a womb transplant.

Daniel Kraft demos his Marrow Miner a new device that quickly harvests life saving bone marrow with minimal pain to the donor. He emphasizes that the adult stem cells found in bone marrow can be used to treat many terminal conditions, from Parkinson's to heart disease.

Sixteen cancer patients in critical need of bone marrow for transplants were put at risk because the matching marrow could not be flown in from the United States or Canada.

Stem cells, found in many organs from skin to bone marrow, are different.

I was sitting there kind of unenthusiastically talking with the head transplant surgeon, and I asked him if I needed a transplant, what I could do to prepare.

Now when I look back, the transplant was actually the easiest part.

But not all patients on the transplant wait list are so fortunate.

So why should you care? Bone marrow is a very rich source of adult stem cells.

The drug is providing an alternative to bone marrow transplantation, the only treatment that was effective previously.

In 1995 a malignant tumour as found in his liver and he underwent a transplant.

So I thought of a minimally invasive approach, and a new device that we call the Marrow Miner.

But 20 years on, my patient, Surinder, is Asia's longest surviving cadaveric liver transplant to date.

Mice with multiple myeloma, an incurable malignancy of the bone marrow, respond dramatically to the treatment with this drug.

So I was privileged to train in transplantation under two great surgical pioneers Thomas Starzl, who performed the world's first successful liver transplant in 1967, and Sir Roy Calne, who performed the first liver transplant in the U.K.

The bone marrow of essentially all the bones produces red blood cells until a person is around five years old.

I returned to Singapore and, in 1990, performed Asia's first successful cadaveric liver transplant procedure, but against all odds.

Schools, motor vehicle bureaus, adoption agencies, mortgage lenders, organ transplant registries all have a stake in information about genetic predispositions.

In the British Medical Journal , a leading British transplant surgeon called for a controlled donor compensation program for unrelated live donors.

I'm not married, but one year ago today, I woke up from a month long coma, following a double lung transplant.

After his liver transplant, he became an organ donation promoter and worked as a volunteer at a hospital, helping fearful patients.

And adult stem cells are found in you and me in our blood, in our bone marrow, in our fat, our skin and other organs.

(Israel has one of the lowest donation rates in the world, so the government pays for transplant surgery performed outside the country.)

Last spring, after the Philippines banned the sale of kidneys to foreigners, a headline in the Jerusalem Post read, Kidney Transplant Candidates in Limbo after Philippines Closes Gates. (Israel has one of the lowest donation rates in the world, so the government pays for transplant surgery performed outside the country.)

But they also want those embryos to be tissue typed in search of a sibling who could serve as a bone marrow donor to their first child.

Unfortunately, much of the world transplant establishment including the WHO, the international Transplantation Society, and the World Medical Association advocates only a partial remedy.

What I'd like you to do is transplant that outside into the real world, so just imagine that word TED in the real world.

As the push to transplant legal norms grows, international agencies should focus on helping countries make their laws effective in practice, not just on paper.

And he sequenced, he took skin cells, healthy skin, and cancerous bone marrow, and he sequenced the whole genomes of both of them in a couple of weeks, no big deal.

But I said we can't get rid of it, because all the people who tried to transplant heart valves found out you can't get rid of that immunity.

Last spring, after the Philippines banned the sale of kidneys to foreigners, a headline in the Jerusalem Post read, Kidney Transplant Candidates in Limbo after Philippines Closes Gates.