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When the blood is too thick or too thin

In healthy bone marrow, red and white blood cells and platelets are formed from blood stem cells. “Very rarely something grows there that does not belong because the blood stem cells have acquired a genetic defect. There are then too many or too few of the respective blood components in the blood. These diseases are summarized under the term myeloproliferative neoplasia (MPN),” explains the Innsbruck native Univ.-Prof. Dominik Wolf.

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