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What are stem cells?

Stem cells have the power to change and save lives.

Stem cells are the body's "master" cells that regenerate and turn into the cells that form all of the tissues, organs, and systems in the human body. The first use of stem cells in medicine was to regenerate healthy blood and immune cells in cancer patients after they received chemotherapy. In an exciting new area of medicine called regenerative medicine, scientists are focusing on using cord blood stem cells for the treatment of brain injury and juvenile diabetes.

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In the late 1980s, doctors successfully used cord blood stem cells to treat diseases that had previously been treated with bone marrow transplantation. Now, cord blood stem cells have been used in thousands of treatments and have proven effective in both adults and children.