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Thursday, September 29, 2005

Singapore Opens Cord Blood Bank

Nearly 100 citizens of Singapore are unable to find matches for the stem cells needed to treat disorders such as Leukemia and bone marrow failure every year.

They hope that number will decrease with the opening of a cord blood bank in Singapore, the nation's first.

Singapore felt the need to create the cord blood bank, in part, because banks operating in other nations often failed to store samples that matched the typical Singaporean ethnic profile.

Read about it here.
 
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