Cord Blood Stem-Cells Help Babies

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Doctors have successfully treated babies with a usually fatal genetic disorder of the brain by using stem-cell transplants from umbilical-cord blood. The successes, reported Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine, offer hope for victims of a host of rare diseases brought on by genetic flaws that cause specific protein deficiencies in the brain.

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Posted by Editor at May 25, 2005 11:54 AM