Frontiers of Cord Blood Science

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stubblefield, Phillip (Editor), Bhattacharya, Niranjan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gene therapy.; Internal medicine.; Blood transfusion.; Hematology.; Surgical transplantation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Gene Therapy.; Blood Transfusion Medicine.; Transplant Surgery.; Internal Medicine.

Since the first successful transplantation of umbilical cord blood in 1988, cord blood has become an important source of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells for the treatment of blood and genetic disorders. Significant progress has been accompanied by challenges for scientists, ethicists, and he...