Bone Marrow Failure

Last Updated March 13, 2024

When the bone marrow fails to make enough healthy red blood cells, white blood cells, or platelets, or when blood cells that are made do not live very long or function properly, leading to anemia and immune system problems.

December 2023: Advancing Our Understanding!
Dear DADA2 Community, This may well be the most intellectually stimulating, time consuming, and absolutely fascinating newsletter we may ever send - that is, until the physicians and researchers meet again in 2025 for the 5th International Conference on DADA2.
An Incredible New Development!
I am breaking with our standard newsletter format to share an incredible development in our 10 years of DADA2 research. 2024 marks ten years since researchers in Israel and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD, first identified the genetic basis of Deficiency of Adenosine Deaminase 2 (DADA2). For many of us, however, that breakthrough in February 2014 was simply giving a name and genetic origin to a disease we had been living with for years.
Living With DADA2
Consensus Statement
Glossary: Cytopenia

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Bone Marrow Failure

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