Transplantation (Placental Blood)
Promising Future Is Filled with Quality Control/Ethics Challenges
Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, August 12th, 1996
These banks would have features that set them apart from conventional blood banks, and numerous challenges are presented, indicated Leslie E. Silberstein, M.D., and Leigh C. Jefferies, M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in an editorial ("Placental-Blood Banking - a New Frontier in Transfusion Medicine," New England Journal of Medicine, July 18, 1996;335(3):199-201).
They noted that well-established blood-banking policies and...
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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (1996-08-12)
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