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b'Bone marrow transplants offer hope to chemotherapy and other patients who lack healthy blood cells, and marrow collection methods have improved in recent years, explains Bone marrow transplants offer hope to chemotherapy and other patients who lack healthy blood cells, and marrow collection methods have improved in recent years, explains Matthew Elkins, MD, PhD Matthew Elkins, MD, PhD, Upstate\\u2018s medical director of transfusion medicine. The marrow\\u2018s stem cells \\u2013 needed to grow healthy blood cells \\u2013 can be harvested from a patient for his or her own later use, from a donor or from a newborn\\u2018s discarded umbilical cord, he says, describing how pheresis machines have largely replaced the old needle-drawn method of harvesting. He also urges people to sign up for the, Upstate\\u2018s medical director of transfusion medicine. The marrow\\u2018s stem cells \\u2013 needed to grow healthy blood cells \\u2013 can be harvested from a patient for his or her own later use, from a donor or from a newborn\\u2018s discarded umbilical cord, he says, describing how pheresis machines have largely replaced the old needle-drawn method of harvesting. He also urges people to sign up for the national marrow donor registry national marrow donor registry .\\xa0 .'