News About Cord Blood Banking

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Umbilical cord blood may safely preserve insulin production in children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (News-Medical-Net)
University of Florida researchers sought to determine whether it is feasible to use a patient's own cord blood stem cells to neutralize the body's autoimmune attack on the pancreas and help restore the organ's ability to make insulin, which regulates how the body uses sugar and other nutrients for energy. (Read More)

Bio-Matrix Scientific's Dr. O'Neill Sees University of Pittsburgh's Published Study on Culture Blood-Forming Stem Cells . (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO—-The University of Pittsburgh School of Health Sciences issued the following study and press release, "Scientists Culture Blood-Forming Stem Cells from Human Fat Tissue," June 15, 2007, Science Daily: "Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have successfully isolated and cultured human hematopoietic stem cells from fat, or adipose tissue, suggesting that they . (Read More)

Bio-Matrix Scientific's Dr. O'Neill Sees University of Pittsburgh's Published Study on Culture Blood-Forming Stem Cells . (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO—-The University of Pittsburgh School of Health Sciences issued the following study and press release, "Scientists Culture Blood-Forming Stem Cells from Human Fat Tissue," June 15, 2007, Science Daily: "Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have successfully isolated and cultured human hematopoietic stem cells from fat, or adipose tissue, suggesting that they . (Read More)

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