Cord Blood Bank - Confusion With Embryonic Stem Cells

Confusion With Embryonic Stem Cells

The public in the United States has a general awareness of embryonic stem cells because of the stem cell controversy. However, cord blood stem cells (hematopoietic stem cells) are not embryonic stem cells (pluripotent stem cells).

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