Banking blood for the future
May 2, 2011
When Paula Aspinall, 35, gave birth to her second child, she and her husband, Peter, arranged to have blood from baby Daniel’s umbilical cord collected and frozen for storage. This procedure, done privately, cost £2,000. But the couple, from Northwich in Cheshire, saw it as an investment in the health of their growing family: cord blood is rich in potentially lifesaving stem cells, the building blocks of all other cells in the body. (The Telegraph)
