Device could improve harvest of stem cells from umbilical cord blood

Monday, June 20, 2011 - 12:30 in Health & Medicine

A graduate student team has invented a system to significantly boost the number of stem cells collected from a newborn's umbilical cord and placenta, so that many more patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other blood disorders can be treated.

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