Umbilical cord blood banking: from personal donation to international public registries to global bioeconomy
Carlo Petrini Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy Abstract: The procedures for collecting voluntarily and freely donated umbilical cord blood (UCB) units and processing them for use in transplants are extremely costly, and the capital flows thus generated form part of an increasingly...
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| Language: | English |
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Dove Medical Press
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Blood Medicine |
| Online Access: | http://www.dovepress.com/umbilical-cord-blood-banking-from-personal-donation-to-international-p-a17247 |