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Amidst Controversy, Where They Go: Blood Stem Cell Storage

Blood Stem Cell Storage
Blood stem cell storage has two sides, and there is a big stem cell research controversy about using embryonic stem cells for research. Some parents may choose to have these cells from the umbilical cord of their newborn child saved and stored, in a process known as cord blood stem cell banking, and this is done in case the child ever needs stem cells at a future date because of an illness or medical condition. Blood stem cell storage is not a complex process, and even though who are on the against side of the stem cell research controversy do not believe it is wrong for parents to practice cord blood stem cell banking, because no embryos are destroyed to gain these cells. (more...)