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NutzyClutz

11-20-2005 11:13 PM

Stem cell question

Would it be good idea to freeze your newborn's placenta/umbilical cord? Or even earlier, take a sample from the early stages of embryo? If the child gets ill later in life, they would have a perfect donor.

soko	11-21-2005 12:22 AM

Re: Stem cell question

Who can afford that?

purnell

11-21-2005 06:11 AM

Re: Stem cell question

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Would it be good idea to freeze your newborn's placenta/umbilical cord? Or even earlier, take a sample from the early stages of embryo? If the child gets ill later in life, they would have a perfect donor.

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The cells must be kept alive in a tissue culture. Freezing the cells would make them useless (dead).

http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/basics2.asp

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