Cord Blood
Data on cord blood discussed by P. Urciuoli and colleagues
Published in Hematology Week, February 15th, 2010
Investigators publish new data in the report 'Pre-birth selection of umbilical cord blood donors.' According to a study from Italy, "The fact that only a small percentage of cord blood units (CBU) stored are actually used for transplantation contributes to raising the already high costs of their processing and cryopreservation. The identification of predictors allowing the early identification of suitable CBU would allow a reduction of costs for the collection, storage and characterisation of CBU with insufficient volume or cell numbers."
"In our bank we have adopted a cut-off value for using CBU of 8 x 108 nucleated cells and a volume >or=60 mL. In 365...
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Source: Hematology Week (2010-02-15)
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