Patients with leukaemia need stem cells to replace damaged ones - the blood in the umbilical cord is so immature the recipient can accept the cells more easily.
CHICAGO, Ill. (The reporter Newswire) -- Umbilical cord stem cell banking can be expensive and controversial, but Jamie and Ben Page decided to bank their daughter Harlow's stem cells,
According to CTVNews, a team of doctors at the University of Calgary has, for the first time in North America, successfully performed a stem cell transplant in a spinal cord