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11-20-2005, 11:13 PM
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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.
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11-21-2005, 06:11 AM
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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. [/ QUOTE ] 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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