What the polio eradication program is trying to do is to kill the virus itself that causes polio everywhere on Earth.

And I put 100 million cells in his cisterna magna, in his lumbar cord, and filled out the IRBs and did all this work, and I never really knew.

The genes are forced into producing all this myelin, all the fat to myelinate the brain.

Poliomyelitis . 93.88

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Umar also has polio.

Wait, poor spinal capacity.

That is indeed the essence of democracy.

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

This is the polio virus.

Individual freedom is the soul of democracy.

This is a polio vaccine.

With polio it's almost completely different.

These are the soul and essence of peace.

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

It's like the essence of TED.

Now giving the polio vaccine is simple.

There is the brain stem in between the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.

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.

That'll probably be the best part of the speech.

One reporter who was watching our program in Somalia about five years ago a place which has eradicated polio, not once, but twice, because they got reinfected.

So actually how do we harvest this bone marrow?

The spinal cord had breaks. The neurons were crossing in every which way.

We're not trying to control polio.

And it's like espresso coffee, you know, you take the essence of the coffee.

Six months later, she comes back with acute myeloid leukemia.

It's really unfortunate. You don't understand at all its essence.

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.

This virus can only survive in people.

So, Buddha's teaching has lost its momentum.

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.

We use those in my field of bone marrow transplantation.

(a) Eliminating poliomyelitis and neonatal tetanus in 1996

And this is the reason in two countries that hadn't had this disease for more than probably a decade, on opposite sides of the globe, there was suddenly terrible polio outbreaks.

Polio is still a devastating, explosive disease.

The reality of polio today is something very different.

They're going to be the tough ones.

And hand it off to the nurse. She squirts it into a tin.

It stays down there 18 hours, and boy, them brains are sure sweet.

The triple vaccination against diphtheria, polio and tetanus (DPT) was introduced in 1961 and the oral polio vaccination in 1962. The

So, a few years ago, I'm doing my transplant fellowship at Stanford.

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.