The miracle cure: the world’s first successful bone marrow transplant for aplastic anemia

An excerpt from Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution.

Late in the summer of 1960, Dr. Clem Finch invited Dr. Don Thomas to Seattle to give a talk about his early experience with transplantation. Clem, who had been Thomas’s hematology fellowship instructor at the Brigham in …

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