How likely is it that the stored stem cells will actually be used?
Everyone naturally hopes to stay healthy into old age, thus eliminating the need for the treatment of serious diseases. However, in reality, things often look different. An extract from the medical journal “The Lancet” underlines the sense of making use of the one-off opportunity to extract stem cells from cord blood even today: it states that more than 7,000 transplantations with stem cells extracted from cord blood have taken place throughout the world since 1989. Research results from recent years have shown that adult stem cells are suitable for a very wide variety of applications.
