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Can Routine Commercial Cord Blood Banking Be Scientifically and Ethically Justified?

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  • Nicholas M Fisk
  • Irene A G Roberts
  • Roger Markwald
  • Vladimir Mironov

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: Umbilical cord blood—the blood that remains in the placenta after birth—can be collected and stored frozen for years. A well-accepted use of cord blood is as an alternative to bone marrow as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for allogeneic transplantation to siblings or to unrelated recipients; women can donate cord blood for unrelated recipients to public banks. However, private banks are now open that offer expectant parents the option to pay a fee for the chance to store cord blood for possible future use by that same child (autologous transplantation.). Private banks offer expectant parents the option to pay a fee for the chance to store cord blood for possible future use by the child. The practice is controversial, for scientific and ethical reasons.

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  • Nicholas M Fisk & Irene A G Roberts & Roger Markwald & Vladimir Mironov, 2005. "Can Routine Commercial Cord Blood Banking Be Scientifically and Ethically Justified?," PLOS Medicine, Public Library of Science, vol. 2(2), pages 1-1, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pmed00:0020044
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020044
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