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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Israeli Source Discusses Cord Blood Benefits for Heart

Israel21c recently published an article regarding the use of banked umbilical cord blood and its potential to rejuvenate damaged heart tissue. The article posits that cord blood could be used to repair myocardial damage.

An excerpt from the article:

"Now Israeli researchers are at the forefront of research which could one day make heart transplants obsolete - using stem cell technology, they're developing a way to use the blood of a newborn baby's discarded umbilical cord (UCB) as an unlimited source of stem/progenitor cells that could be injected into the injured heart in order to regenerate damaged heart tissue."

You can read the entire piece regarding UCB by clicking here.
 
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