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- Title
Can routine commercial cord blood banking be scientifically and ethically justified?
- Authors
Fisk, Nicholas M; Roberts, Irene A G; Markwald, Roger; Mironov, Vladimir
- Abstract
Umbilical cord blood--the blood that remains in the placenta after birth--can be collected and stored frozen for years. A well-accepted use of cord blood is as an alternative to bone marrow as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for allogeneic transplantation to siblings or to unrelated recipients; women can donate cord blood for unrelated recipients to public banks. However, private banks are now open that offer expectant parents the option to pay a fee for the chance to store cord blood for possible future use by that same child (autologous transplantation).
- Publication
PLoS medicine, 2005, Vol 2, Issue 2, pe44
- ISSN
1549-1676
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pmed.0020044