A growing number of families are banking their baby's umbilical cord blood, hoping that it may provide life-saving stem cells, should they need them. Stem cells from cord blood are currently used to treat diseases like leukemia and sickle cell anemia, but research is underway for diabetes, heart ...
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Scientists have developed a method that expands the number of umbilical cord blood units used in a stem cell transplant, which could lead to new treatments for leukemia and other blood cancers.
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Each time a baby is born, a potential gift of life is in danger of being discarded. That gift is blood from the umbilical cord which provides nourishment from mother to baby before birth. But researchers now say the cord blood can be used to treat many others with life-threatening diseases. VO...
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The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center cleared a hurdle in the use of umbilical cord blood - using a new life to help save another. The breakthrough could make umbilical-cord-blood transplants a more widely-used method for treating blood cancers like leukemia.
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The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center cleared a hurdle in the use of umbilical cord blood - using a new life to help save another. The breakthrough could make umbilical-cord-blood transplants a more widely-used method for treating blood cancers like leukemia.
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