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A better way to harvest bone marrow

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Daniel Kraft |

TED2009

• February 2009

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.

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.

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Daniel Kraft

Physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur

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Daniel Kraft explores the impact and potential of rapidly developing technologies as applied to health and medicine.

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