For patients with blood diseases who need a stem cell transplant, doctors often turn to umbilical cord blood. But the small supply of blood in each cord is often inadequate to meet the needs of an adult patient (SN: 10/26/02, p. 261: Blood Booster: Growth signal shifts cord stem cells into high gear).
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