Ralph Fariello: The Promise of Placental and Cord Blood Stem Cells (HuffingtonPost)

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Bagging Plastic Bags (Gotham Gazette)
It's the same situation for many New Yorkers. Lurking under your kitchen sink is a growing, almost uncontrollable number of plastic shopping bags. The environmentally conscious city dweller habitually hoards bags, because here, as in many places across the city and state, the bags are not recycled. (Read More)

Ralph Fariello: The Promise of Placental and Cord Blood Stem Cells (HuffingtonPost)
While political discussion has slowed progress on issues surrounding embryonic stem cell research, the science of harvesting adult stem cells has made important advances. (Read More)

Cord blood may become super-cure (Arizona Daily Wildcat)
Two studies presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks last week drew attention to the expanding importance and usefulness of umbilical cord and placental blood in treating many diseases. (Read More)

First Systemic Therapy For Fatal Childhood Disease Performed By U Of M (Medical News Today)
University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview physicians have performed the first bone marrow and cord blood transplant to treat recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB).Children with RDEB lack a protein that anchors skin to the body, resulting in fragile skin that sloughs off with little movement or friction. [click link for full article] (Read More)

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