This is reported by the Cord Blood Bank - a private company from the USA that saves umbilical cord blood for medical use for children when they grow up
Avi Blizovsky
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A team of British and American researchers said that a number of stem cells in the umbilical cord contain characteristics similar to embryonic stem cells. This is what the CBR company said.
In laboratory experiments, the team succeeded in turning embryonic-like stem cells in the umbilical cord into liver cells, according to Stephen Grant, senior vice president of the CBR company, which claims to own the largest umbilical cord blood bank in the world.
The discovery added value to the investment made by approximately 300 families seeking to preserve the umbilical cord blood of their children by freezing for regular use and in times of emergency," said Grant. Details of the study appeared in the August issue of the journal Cell Proliferation.
A meeting of researchers in the field of stem cells was held in Seoul
Top researchers using embryonic stem cells gathered at Yonsei University in Seoul last weekend for a two-day symposium where they shared their findings.
Among the participants - 21 scientists from five countries: USA, UK, Australia, Japan and South Korea. Among the scientists is also Prof. Moon Shin Jung from Seoul National University, who for the first time cloned an embryo for the purpose of producing embryonic stem cells, in 2003 together with his colleagues Huang Woo-suk, as well as Hal Brooksmeyer from Indiana University, who discovered the stem cells found in the bone marrow and which can become any type of blood, and transplanted such cells into leukemia patients in the late eighties.
Boxmeier, a well-known researcher in the field of blood cell production, gave a lecture on the mobility and homing of these stem cells and the cells that gave birth to them.
Stem cells, which have the ability to become any normal cell in the body or develop into tissues and organs, are currently attracting a lot of interest due to their healing potential but also attracting fire and debate about the use of human embryos.
This week researchers in the USA said that they found a way to produce stem cells without using human embryos.
They knew the stem cells
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