Israeli Stem Cells Save Young Girl

(Times of Israel) David Shamah - Working with stem cells developed by Israel's Pluristem Therapeutics, doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital announced this week that they were able to significantly increase the number of red blood cells in a seven-year-old girl whose condition was rapidly deteriorating. "With her body rejecting all possible treatment - and with no other options - we finally turned to Pluristem's PLX cells, which literally saved her life," said the child's physician, Prof. Reuven Or, director of the Bone Marrow Transplantation, Cell Therapy and Transplantation Research Center at Hadassah.


2012-05-11 00:00:00

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