Stem Cell Research: Blood Disease Treatments
Blood diseases like leukemia, sickle cell anemia, and other immuno-deficiencies have in the past been treated with Adult hematopoietic stem cells found in blood and bone marrow.
These cells can produce all blood cell types, such as red blood cells that carry oxygen to white blood cells that fight disease.
At present such cells are harvested via bone marrow transplants which can be painful and invasive with no guarantees of success.
However, hematopoietic stem cells are known to be present in both the umbilical cord blood and placenta and this has excited researchers who are calling for a central cord blood bank. Such a bank would mean that these cells would be easily obtainable and using them to treat a patient would potentially decrease the chances of the patient's body rejecting them.
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