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Cord Blood Donation Criteria
In recent years there has discovered that the blood contains large numbers of stem cells that can be used to cure some diseases which hitherto had a very difficult treatment, such as leukemia and other disorders of the bone marrow.
Stem cells from umbilical cord blood, by their degree of immaturity, can be adapted easily to any body, which reduces the problems of incompatibility is in any kind of transplant.
Faced with such great potential therapeutic has been developed in recent years the creation of banks umbilical cord blood that logically require the donation of mothers who have just one child.
In Spain, the donation and storage of cord blood are regulated and controlled by the National Organization for Transplants, which oversees banks umbilical cord blood and the records of... (Read more)
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