This
amazing piece in the Times of London highlights the
real-world, life-saving results from non-embryonic sources of stem cells. Excerpt:
Peter Houghton, a lorry driver from
Preston, is understandably excited about the establishment of Kingscord, a new
UK centre for storing discarded umbilical cords and placenta, which are packed
with precious stem cells. Why? Because his baby son's life was saved by the
umbilical cord of a baby in Australia, whose parents opted to donate it to a
cord blood bank after the birth of their child, in the hope that it would one
day provide someone with a life-saving stem-cell transplant, more commonly
known as a bone-marrow transplant.
Read
full
article here.