[AKA Elena]

The fact as I understand it (my grandaughter's life was saved through an unrelated donor's stem cells) is that, her DNA is changed from what it was.

This was one of my questions after all was said and done and my son told me that it was changed (he is not often off on fact or trivia, which this fact had certainly become (trivia) in relation to the entire ordeal.)

[hocndoc]

We have something in common - granddaughters who were treated by stem cell transplants.

But, only the cells that arise from her bone marrow will be of the different DNA. She's a chimera, with 2 types of cells with different DNA in each cell line.