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Managing diseases using stem cells (The Hindu)
The strategy to treat Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes is to implant near the blood system the insulin producing beta cells derived from cord blood stem cells (Read More)

Women urged to donate cord blood (BBC News)
New mothers are urged to donate blood from the umbilical cord under a new programme. (Read More)

A year and a half after vanishing, mystery — and sorrow — only deeper (The Charleston Gazette)
Donna Harper remembers being in the emergency room when Melanie Metheny gave birth to her son Nathan. Metheny has been missing since July 19, 2006. The 21-year-old Belle woman's van was found four days later on Charleston's West Side, but no trace of her was ever discovered. (Read More)

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