CHICAGO: A three-year-old leukemia victim was given a life-saving infusion of her own cord blood, marking the first time a child with this disease served as their own blood donor, American doctors said Thursday.
This was largely thanks the the girl’s parent’s decision to save some of her umbilical cord after she was born. The future, my friends, is not in embryonic stem cell research. The future is in umbilical cord blood, and many, like Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm are catching on. Last week Granholm signed several bills that would help create a statewide network of UC blood stem cell banks. Unfortunately our US lawmakers are still preoccupied with spending more and more of the taxpayer’s money on thus far unproven ESC research. The House is scheduled to vote on another bill to expand funding on January 11th of this week.