Tissue Transplant: Bone Marrow

In the past and the present, great moments in biology have been made and are still being made. These advances in biology have saved lives around the world. A great leap in biology was made. In late 1968, Robert A. Good, MD, and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota performed the first successful marrow transplant between two people who were not identical twins. The first bone marrow transplant that used a matched donor was definitely one of the greatest moments in history.
Bone marrow is a tissue that is found inside the bones. It consists of many stem cells. …