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Stem cells

Amilah wearing a puffer jacket and rollneck jumper, with her dark hair tied in bunches, grins at the camera while standing on an ice rink with other skaters behind her

Donor found for girl with rare blood disorder

Amilah, from Crawley, has aplastic anaemia, when bone marrow cannot make enough new blood cells.

A man and woman sit on a sofa, with their three year old daughter between them. They are all smiling at the camera.

'Only 60 people in the UK have our daughter's genetic condition'

Three-year-old Autumn will spend three months in an isolation room during her treatment.

North Yorkshire

Two men hug in a park. Facing the camera is a man with a broad smile. He is wearing a light-pink hoodie and a white baseball cap and he has a dark moustache and stubble. His arms arms are wrapped around an older man who has his back to the camera and is wearing a blue blazer and glasses on the top of his head.

'My life was saved by a stranger on the other side of the world'

An Australian man meets his stem-cell donor for the first time after travelling to the UK.

The photo shows a woman with brown hair holding two newborn babies. She is smiling and is looking to the left of the photo. One baby is wearing a flowery baby grow, and the other is wearing dungarees and a striped top. They both have their heads on the woman's shoulders.

I'm waiting for my hero, says mum in donor search

Katie Matthews, 32, has been told she has six years to live without a stem cell transplant.

A happy smiling young boy looks into the camera. He has curly dark hair and brown eyes. He is wearing an Arsenal top.

'You wouldn't know to look at him that he's ill'

Five-year-old Mason from Islington is waiting for his "magic medicine" - a stem cell transplant.

A woman with a shaven head is sat in a hospital room

'I went from planning my wedding to my funeral'

Salma Shah makes an urgent appeal for more stem cell donors after her own leukaemia diagnosis.

Beds, Herts & Bucks

A group of football fans stand, many with arms aloft, during a match watched by stewards, who have their backs to the camera.

Football fans urged to become potential lifesavers

A blood cancer charity is hoping supporters attending a match will sign up as stem cell donors.

A smiling man in a hospital bed holding up a bag of red liquid, which appears to be blood.

Stem cell donor nearly hung up on life-saving call

Bradley Sheldrick says he initially thought it was a sales call.

Jack Parsons smiles at the camera - he is wearing a black polo shirt and is in his back garden

'I waited 12 years to save a stranger's life'

Jack Parsons says it's a "painless way to give back to people in their hour of need".