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Palesa Mokomele

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18 September 2019, Saxony, Dresden: An employee in the DKMS Life Science Lab, in the former building of the Dresdner Bundesbank, is working on the sorting of medical cotton swabs with cells of the buccal mucosa for the typing process of DNA. Each day can be registered in Germany over 1900 humans again as stem cell donors with the DKMS, world-wide there are over 3400. Each individual of you is analyzed in the DKMS stem cell donor laboratory for its tissue characteristics, the so-called HLA-Typisierung. Photo: Robert Michael/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa (Photo by Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images)
OPINION

The truth about bone marrow stem cell donation

Donations save lives but the dropout rate of donors is high

  • Palesa Mokomele
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