The
DC Examiner reports. Excerpt:
Researchers at the Children's Hospital
& Research Center in Oakland, California have discovered a new way to
harvest stem cells from the placenta.
This technique is a good use of the placenta which at the moment serves
no medicinal purpose after birth and thus is discarded. What is more, the study
“finds there are far more stem cells in placentas than in umbilical cord blood,
and they can be safely extracted for transplantation.”