Quote of the Week

May 19, 2006

If we use stem cells that have been taken from an umbilical cord, they have not been conditioned by a person’s immune system. Those cells are much more plastic, and we don’t need as exact a match genetically.

— Pediatric oncologist Dr. James McKinnell on umbilical cord stem cell transplants. From “Insurance Company OKs Boy’s Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Transplant,” KRQE, May 17, 2006.