A common negative side-effect of some forms of cancer treatments is damage to the bone marrow, which could be lethal. A new treatment by Israeli company Pluristem just might be the solution to the deadly problem.

Eighteen shopping malls around Israel will later this month ask visitors to give a saliva sample to find a compatible bone marrow donor for a 12-and-a-half-year-old boy, Or Yosipov, who suffers from leukemia.