HUMAN CORD BLOOD STORAGE. “The cord blood banking industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. There were only 23 active cord blood banks as of 2005, and now there are 485 worldwide … now exist in nearly every developed country, as well as within several developing nations. That is a 21-fold increase … in less than a ten-year period.”
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