So actually how do we harvest this bone marrow?

We use those in my field of bone marrow transplantation.

Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow

Daniel Kraft demos his Marrow Miner a new device that quickly harvests life saving bone marrow with minimal pain to the donor. He emphasizes that the adult stem cells found in bone marrow can be used to treat many terminal conditions, from Parkinson's to heart disease.

We take our own bone marrow cells and treat a patient with a heart attack, we can see much improved heart function and actually better survival using our own bone marrow drive cells after a heart attack.

And we found, to our surprise, that we not only got bone marrow out, but we got 10 times the stem cell activity in the marrow from the Marrow Miner, compared to the normal device.

I invented a device called the MarrowMiner, a much less invasive way for harvesting bone marrow.

So why should you care? Bone marrow is a very rich source of adult stem cells.

It may encourage more people to sign up to be potential live saving bone marrow donors.

And so this informs, among other things, of course, a treatment for bone marrow transplant, which he undertakes.

Mice with multiple myeloma, an incurable malignancy of the bone marrow, respond dramatically to the treatment with this drug.

So it enables you to very rapidly aspirate, or suck out, rich bone marrow very quickly through one hole.

It is a fact that when our organs or tissues are injured, our bone marrow releases stem cells into our circulation.

And ultimately and here's a picture of our bone marrow transplant survivors, who come together for a reunion each year at Stanford.

So I am a pediatric cancer doctor and stem cell researcher at Stanford University where my clinical focus has been bone marrow transplantation.

Now, inspired by Jill Bolte Taylor last year, I didn't bring a human brain, but I did bring a liter of bone marrow.

In many countries, the supply of blood for medical purposes relies on voluntary, anonymous donations. Worldwide, more than 11 million people have put their names on donor registries for bone marrow, signifying their willingness to donate their marrow to a stranger.

And adult stem cells are found in you and me in our blood, in our bone marrow, in our fat, our skin and other organs.

And the way we do this is we basically place this through the soft tissue, and kind of punch it into the hard bone, into the tuchus that's a technical term and aspirate about 10 mls of bone marrow out, each time, with a syringe.

Hopefully you can appreciate the device there curving through the patient's body and removing the patient's bone marrow, instead of with 200 punctures, with just a single puncture under local anesthesia.

And he sequenced, he took skin cells, healthy skin, and cancerous bone marrow, and he sequenced the whole genomes of both of them in a couple of weeks, no big deal.

And bone marrow is actually what we use to save the lives of tens of thousands of patients, most of whom have advanced malignancies like leukemia and lymphoma and some other diseases.

Adult stem cells are throughout our body, including the blood forming stem cells in our bone marrow, which we've been using as a form of stem cell therapy for over 40 years.

As one of the consequences of war, there are high rates registered of amputations, lesions of the spinal cord and bone marrow, traumatic injuries of brain, lesions of peripheral nerves and multiple traumas.

(c) In the case of R. v. Cambridge Health Authority, the applicant was refused treatment of bone marrow transplant for her acute myeloid leukaemic condition because the National Health Service would not pay for it.

In the last decade there's been an explosion of use of bone marrow stem cells to treat the patient's other diseases such as heart disease, vascular disease, orthopedics, tissue engineering, even in neurology to treat Parkinson's and diabetes.

This is called the hyoid bone. It's a bone which is right here.

And sure enough, Nanotyrannus has juvenile bone and the bigger one has more mature bone.

And the Marrow Miner, the way it works is shown here.

It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

So that screw that you thought about beforehand can actually be used to screw a bone together a fractured bone together and deliver drugs at the same, while your bone is healing, for example.

And it was really interesting there were articles correlating if you have a bone fracture, and then bone cancer arises.

DJ There's a burgeoning bone trade.

You feel that bone under there?

You can tell it's mature bone.

She is all skin and bone.

We've just come out, we're commercializing, this year, generation 2.0 of the Marrow Miner.

If I push even harder, I'll go through the bone structure, especially close to the ear where the bone is very soft.

A traditional bone setter is a professional.

So we look at the bone histology.