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Cord blood bank research
September 30, 2007 on 7:24 am | In Umbilical Cord Blood | Cord blood is the name given to the human blood of the placenta, together with the umbilical cord, which is resulted after giving birth to a child. This, in turn, means that cord blood stem cells can be used to recreate T cells as well as other vital cells within the body of your child.
This also offers you the benefit that that hospital in question will be willing to undertake a transfusion using that blood. A list of criteria is drawn up and the more boxes that can be ticked the greater the match and subsequently the less chance there is that the body will reject the new tissue. The treatment, in which the stem cells are collected from the same patient’s cord blood, on whom they are used, is known as autologous and the treatment in which the stem cells are collected from identical individuals, is called syngeneic. There are news reports about the positive impact that research on cord blood stem cells is having on the possible cure for numerous life threatening diseases. Currently one of the big adult stem cells cons and gives light to research being carried out on diseases other than those that a bone marrow transplant can help, and early indications show that an umbilical cord blood transplant could be the answer to heart failure and many other deadly diseases. Cord Blood, Cord Blood Banking, Umbilical Cord Blood
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