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" Dr. Colleen Delaney, who directs the Hutch’s Cord Blood Program, and her colleagues have developed a technique for significantly growing (“expanding”) the number of stem cells in cord blood and freezing and storing the resulting product. Because of the types of cells present in the final product, it can be used as needed “off the shelf” without regard to tissue typing. These expanded cord blood stem cells have been tested with promising results in several clinical trials to provide patients going through cord blood transplant with a bridge of infection-fighting cells while they wait for blood and immune system recovery."
