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$200G needed after response to bone-marrow request

Quick ReadThe bone-marrow registry that sponsored the donor-drive to find a tissue match for a Farmingville girl with leukemia needs $200,000 to have the samples tested.

Six-year-old Julianna Buttner, in pink, with her parents

Photo credit: Newsday / Mahala Gaylord | Six-year-old Julianna Buttner, in pink, with her parents Mike and Lynda Buttner, and twin sister Jessica at the Stony Brook Medical Center. Julianna needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant. (Nov. 25 2009)

The bone-marrow registry that sponsored the donor-drive to find a tissue match for a 6-year-old Farmingville girl with leukemia received such an overwhelming response that it now will have to come up with more than $200,000 to have the samples tested.

DKMS Americas collected only $8,000 in monetary donations during the drive Sunday at the Farmingville Fire Station, nowhere near the amount...

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