Destruction of the bone marrow, where all our blood cells are formed, is a perpetual hazard of chemotherapy. That’s why your white blood cells are constantly checked while you’re on it.
When their levels fall too far it means your bone marrow is being hammered and you’re vulnerable.
Good news then that scientists at the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have made the first bone marrow “organoids” in a lab dish and they include all the key components of human bone marrow.
