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.

Wait, poor spinal capacity.

In the spinal ward, that's normal.

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.

It's pressure. Have you done a spinal puncture?

They moved me from intensive care to acute spinal.

I was lying on a thin, hard spinal bed.

So actually how do we harvest this bone marrow?

She had a spina bifida defect, a spinal cord abnormality.

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.

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.

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

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.

More marrow transplantation centres have been established and more transplantations are being performed

It paralyzes you. It starts by killing the motor neurons in your spinal cord.

Well, there wasn't much else to do in the spinal ward, so we did.

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

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

And then I remembered my friends that were still in the spinal ward, particularly Maria.

In late August 2004, he underwent surgery at the Cairo university hospital on spinal discs.

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.

They picked as much broken bone as they could that had lodged in my spinal cord.

This was a device that a nurse uses when they're doing a spinal procedure in hospital.

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

We're sending his marrow across the country to save the life of a child with leukemia.

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.

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.

laterally, vertically, up and down in the spinal cord and they start interacting with other adjacent cells.

KA Sort of like the Spinal Tap scene where you get the tiny little Stonehenge, I guess?

In the police van, he was repeatedly kicked on the back, causing damage to his spinal cord.

And each of us knew that when we left the spinal ward we would never be the same.

Geron, just last year, started the first trial using human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries.

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

So I thought of a minimally invasive approach, and a new device that we call the Marrow Miner.

The headquarters for orgasm, along the spinal nerve, is something called the sacral nerve root, which is back here.

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.