Rationale for Bone Marrow Transplantation in Treatment of Various Intractable Diseases
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In this article, we provide evidence that bone marrow transplantation (BMT) can be used to treat various otherwise intractable diseases. We also show which currently incurable diseases could be treated using our novel BMT methods.
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