Umbilical cord blood may help build heart valves
Monday, November 10, 2008 - 16:49
in Health & Medicine
LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors may one day be able to use stem cells taken from umbilical cord blood to build new heart valves for children born with heart defects, German scientists said on Monday.
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