Word: stemming
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...have been thinking quite a bit about umbilical cords, and not just because our first child is due in a few weeks. There's been a lot of news lately about the blood that remains in umbilical cords after they are cut; this fluid is a rich source of stem cells that can be used to treat a variety of diseases, from leukemia to sickle-cell anemia. Two weeks ago, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that children with a fatal genetic disorder called Krabbe's disease had been saved with stem cells from cord blood. And last week...
...especially on the Internet--from companies offering to store our baby's cord blood as "insurance," as they they put it, against the day our child gets desperately ill. The idea is that by saving a baby's cord blood, you will have a source of stem cells that uniquely match his or her DNA. The Cord Blood Registry, which claims to be the oldest and largest of these blood banks, says it has frozen more than 300,000 samples at $1,975 a pop--plus a $125 storage fee every year thereafter. A video on its website urges parents...
...triumph in the national legislature for Harvard stem cell scientists follows the unexpected departure of Stefan Heller, an investigator at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary who announced this Monday he would leave for Stanford University...
Earlier this year, Harvard lured Kenneth R. Chien ’73 back to the East coast. Chien, who works on adult stem cells, joined the Harvard faculty from the University of California at San Diego...
...administration’s top priorities appears to be the construction of laboratory space to house cutting-edge initiatives like the Harvard Stem Cell Institute...