Parents Eye Technology to Treat Blood Diseases

More parents are choosing to drain and store stem cell-rich blood from their babies' umbilical cords and placentas at birth hoping to increase treatment options if the child later is stricken with a blood disease. San Bruno, Calif.-based Cord Blood Register, which operates the nation's largest private cord-blood bank, launched operations more than a decade ago when few knew of cord blood's potential health benefits. Today, the company has about 500,000 blood packets at its nondescript, 80,000-square-foot building near the Tucson, Ariz., airport. Click here to read the rest of the article

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