Word: corded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collection team, with exquisite delicacy, inserts a catheter into a vein in the cut cord, draining the precious blood while the placenta is still in place. Kyle is on the warming table, all 9 lbs. 7 oz. "That's no infant," the merry nurse says, "that's a toddler." Father Kevin scoops up his swaddled son and greets him, then lays him tenderly on his mother's chest. "Well, hidey-ho," she says...
...treatment is called cord-blood transplantation. It is an approach that is being used at several medical centers, but Duke has done more of it than anyplace else...
...treatment is based on the belief that the placenta and umbilical cord are rich in powerfully therapeutic cells, called stem cells. Frequently discarded, the placenta and umbilical cord from a few new mothers, like Christina Crosby, are now being donated right in the delivery room...
...blood and process the material to concentrate the stem cells. Theoretically, stem cells can rebuild the body's bloodmaking machinery so that it produces the full array of effective blood cells the body needs to defend itself against germs, close wounds and transport oxygen. Scientists speculate that cord stem cells are more adaptable and will transplant more successfully, even in patients with imperfect biological matches, than stem cells harvested from adult bone-marrow donors...
When doctors are confident the sick cells have been destroyed, the cord cells are dripped into the children's arms. The lucky ones wait up to 100 days for their stem cells to start functioning. The cost to save a child's life...