02 April 2017 02 Apr 2017

Cord blood donation

In the late 1970s, while working in a hospital virus lab, I once took receipt of a donated human placenta and umbilical cord It was to enable me to harvest cells capable of supporting the growth of viruses Today, cell culture has almost vanished from routine virus diagnostic labs, but new applications have been found for the umbilical cord For example, in 1988 the first successful cord-cell transplant to a sibling with Fanconi's anemia took place