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The Japanese Japanese government has been making a contingency plan, sending specialist doctors and engineers to hospitals in Fukushima Prefecture and mulling radiation-sickness remedies, such as potassium iodide and transplants of umbilical-cord blood.
Communities Scramble to Avoid Exposure Phred Dvorak 2011
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In utero percutaneous umbilical-cord ligation in the management of complicated monochorionic multiple gestations.
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No sooner do the blue lines show up on a pregnancy test than expectant parents find themselves bombarded with brochures from companies extolling the benefits of umbilical-cord blood banking as a rich source of stem cells to treat future diseases that their son or daughter might develop.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Cord Blood Banking: Not a Clear-Cut Answer M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Shannon, who played the young lion Nala, had received an umbilical-cord blood transplant in August.
Obituaries of note: Joseph Gavin; Denise Borino-Quinn; Shannon Tavarez Post 2010
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No sooner do the blue lines show up on a pregnancy test than expectant parents find themselves bombarded with brochures from companies extolling the benefits of umbilical-cord blood banking as a rich source of stem cells to treat future diseases that their son or daughter might develop.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Cord Blood Banking: Not a Clear-Cut Answer M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Although researchers have tried to use already-differentiated stem cells—taken from umbilical-cord blood, thus negating the need to use controversial embryonic stem cells—experiments striving to use this line of stem cells to regrow nerves have failed.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Although researchers have tried to use already-differentiated stem cells—taken from umbilical-cord blood, thus negating the need to use controversial embryonic stem cells—experiments striving to use this line of stem cells to regrow nerves have failed.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Stem cells derived from umbilical-cord blood were as effective as cells from other, more genetically compatible transplant sources at preventing leukemia relapse, according to a study in Lancet Oncology.
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The report noted rising rates of cancer in children, and it referred to recent studies that have found industrial chemicals in umbilical-cord blood, which supplies nutrients to developing fetuses.
Cancer panel: 'Grievous harm' posed by unchecked chemicals in U.S. 2010
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The report noted rising rates of cancer in children, and it referred to recent studies that have found industrial chemicals in umbilical-cord blood, which supplies nutrients to developing fetuses.
Cancer panel: 'Grievous harm' posed by unchecked chemicals in U.S. 2010
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