M.D. Anderson Researchers Target Minorities For Cord Blood Donations To Address Bone Marrow Shortages

Researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center are using donations of umbilical cord blood — which is quickly “emerging as an alternative to treat” at least 50 diseases such as cancer, cell anemia and Tay-Sachs disease — to help offset a “shortage of transplant material for minority patients,” the

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