Clinical trial demonstrates safety of pre-transplant expansion of umbilical cord blood stem cells
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - 06:03
in Health & Medicine
Taking blood stem cells collected from an umbilical cord into the lab and expanding their number before transplanting them to replace a patient's blood supply is as safe as a standard cord blood transplant, researchers reported at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology...