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Article: Company Promotes Banking on the Future of Stem Cells.(Cord Blood Registry)
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- March 30, 2000
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2000 MAR 30 - (NewsRx.com) --
On the heels of one of the most exciting years in scientific advances, Cord Blood Registry, the largest family bank of umbilical cord blood stem cells in the U.S., announced that its registry has grown to over 18,000 units.
Stem cells were the top science story of 1999 and researchers have recently discovered that stem cells, like those found in cord blood and bone marrow, can be "coaxed" into becoming other types of cells. Unlike mature cells, which cannot change their destiny, it appears that stem cells can renew themselves and create new cells of whatever tissue they belong to.
Cord blood, which is usually ...