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25 YEARS OF UMBILICAL CHORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTS (UCBT). "2013, marks the 25th anniversary of the first UCBT, performed by Gluckman ... in France in 1988 for a child with Fanconi anemia. More than 600 ,000 UCB units have been donated for public use worldwide, and more than 30 ,000 UCBTs have been performed." http://lnkd.in/dca-scH View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE HAS NEVER been in so controversial a place before: the ability to make entirely novel creatures, bring back extinct species, and clone humans. Technology convergence of stem cells, SYNBIO, DNA sequencing give unparalleled tools. The inability to reach international consensus regulations on biological warfare simply means that our ability to put the jenie back in the bottle is unrealistic. View in LinkedIn

CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTS. "A cord blood transplant is a hematopoietic stem cell transplant that uses cord blood instead of bone marrow or peripheral blood as the source of blood-producing stem cells for the transplant. The transplant restores a patient’s ability to produce healthy blood cells, some of which are essential to the immune system’s ability to fight infections." http://www.fhcrc.org/en/treatment/treatment-research/cord-blood-transplantation.html View in LinkedIn

CRAZY FRINGE. "A cloning company operated by a religious group based in Las Vegas faces a lawsuit. A locally based religious group called Raelians operates Clonaid, the company claiming to have cloned the first human. Cloning is of particular importance to Raelians, who believe humans are clones of an advanced race of aliens." http://lnkd.in/dqQesSK View in LinkedIn

AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELLS. "Umbilical cord blood banking efforts have increased dramatically in the past two decades in response to increasing demand for alternative sources of blood stem cells to support patients requiring hematopoietic stem cell transplantation." http://www.hindawi.com/journals/sci/2013/463031/ View in LinkedIn

20,000 CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTS. "The first cord blood transplant was performed in 1988 ... Since then, more than 20,000 cord blood transplants have been performed worldwide to treat blood cancers and other blood and immune system disorders." http://www.fhcrc.org/en/treatment/treatment-research/cord-blood-transplantation.html View in LinkedIn

MECHANICS OF STEM CELL THERAPY. "For example, to treat a man with Parkinson's disease, a cell nucleus from one of his cells would be transplanted ... into an egg cell from an egg donor, creating a unique lineage of stem cells almost identical to the patient's own cells." http://lnkd.in/dsWWRQb View in LinkedIn

PERSONALIZED STEM CELL MEDICINE: "to create custom stem cell lines for patients. Each custom stem cell line would consist of a collection of identical stem cells each carrying the patient's own DNA, thus reducing or eliminating any problems with rejection when the stem cells were transplanted for treatment." http://lnkd.in/dsWWRQb View in LinkedIn

"BANKING CHORD BLOOD in a private umbilical cord blood bank, such as Cord Blood Registry or Americord Registry, is a personal choice made by both parents. Private banks store cord blood with a link to the identity of the donor, so that the family may retrieve it later if it is needed. The parents have custody of the cord blood until the child is an adult." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_blood_bank View in LinkedIn

UMBILICAL CHORD BLOOD BANKING. "The concept, which has been a possibility for about a decade, may sound bizarre but advocates claim that stem cells from the banked blood may be used at a later date to cure the child or a sibling of a host of deadly diseases, should they be struck down." http://lnkd.in/dZqH3UU View in LinkedIn