Sentences with phrase «umbilical cord blood transplants»
Hard numbers are tricky to pin down, but between that first transplant in 1988 and 2015, an estimated 35,000 umbilical cord blood transplants had been performed globally.
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And a clinical trial to see whether cord blood transplants improve symptoms of children with autism spectrum disorder should wrap up in the summer of 2018, says pediatric researcher and clinician Joanne Kurtzberg of Duke University, who helped establish a not - for - profit umbilical cord bank in North Carolina.
«Umbilical cord blood contains an enriched population of bone marrow stem cells,» says Daniel Weisdorf, director of the Adult Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at the univerblood contains an enriched population of bone marrow stem cells,» says Daniel Weisdorf, director of the Adult Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at the univerBlood and Marrow Transplant Program at the university.
An innovative experimental treatment for boosting the effectiveness of stem - cell transplants with umbilical cord blood has a favorable safety profile in long - term animal studies, report scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and Children's Hospital Boston (CHB).
One type of stem cell transplant, autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, uses stems cells from your own bone marrow, or from external umbilical cord blood.