An infant's umbilical
Using umbilical cord blood might have important therapeutic implications in treating certain diseases. Cord blood is rich in stem cells, which play a major role in creating all of the body's new blood cells.
Although mature cells continuously die off, stem cells, which reside in the bone marrow, function as parent cells. They replenish the blood by continually manufacturing young blood cells....
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