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Article: Cord Blood Stem Cells Save Children With Hurler's Syndrome.
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- AScribe Medicine News Service
- Article date:
- May 5, 2004
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Byline: Duke University
DURHAM, N.C., May 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Stem cells from a newborn baby's umbilical cord blood can save the lives of children with Hurler's syndrome and can repair much of the progressive brain and organ damage that would otherwise be fatal to children, according to physicians at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center's Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program.
Children with this rare metabolic disease die by the age of 6 because they are missing an important enzyme, alpha-L-iduronidase, which leads to progressive damage in the brain, heart, bones, cartilage, liver and corneas. Stem cells from cord blood provide the needed ...