About two decades ago, it became “fashionable” to save the umbilical cord when a new baby was born. The cells from the cord were harvested and saved should a familial member in fact need stem cell therapy in the future. To be honest, most of the saved cells were used for siblings, not the actual child from which the cord was saved.
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You know the terror in a parent’s eyes when their baby arrives prematurely. Those babies have, at best, a tenuous hold on life and a long period of hospitalization, before they really can survive on their own. Some 500,000 premature births occur annually – about 1 in every 9 births here in the US. And, then, there’s also the problem when well-meaning therapies are not explained well.
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