Researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center believe that their technique of multipying umbilical cord blood cells may improve recovery for patients requiring blood stem cell transplants. While the study is still in the experimental stage, research lead Dr. Marcos de Lima states that umbilical cord blood is more easily matched in patients than donor bone marrow. Nevertheless he refuses to speculate, at this point, on how this new initiative will affect cure rates.
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