Can Routine Commercial Cord Blood Banking Be Scientifically and Ethically Justified?
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Can Routine Commercial Cord Blood Banking Be Scientifically and Ethically Justified?
BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE Umbilical cord blood--the blood that remains in the placenta after birth--can be collected and stored frozen for years. A well-accepted use of cord blood is as an alternative to bone marrow as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for allogeneic transplantation to siblings or to unrelated recipients; women can donate cord blood for unrelated recipients to public banks. H...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020044