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Placentas provide a superior source of hematopoietic stem cells for transplants compared to the limited quantities found in cord blood.
“we also developed in this institute the use of cord blood, sibling cord blood, to transplant individuals for leukemia or sickle cell disease or thalassemia. And so, the reason that we started looking at the placenta is we started to look upstream because a cord blood unit that is used a lot currentl”
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