Cord Blood Bank of Arkansas’ luncheon
July 25, 2014 9:22 a.m.
150 or so folks filled the Grand Hall for the Cord Blood Bank of Arkansas’ luncheon July 15 at the Governor’s Mansion. Cord blood is the stem cell-rich blood captured from the umbilical cords of newly born babies. It’s neither the controversial embryonic stem cells, nor adult stem cells, but like embryonic stem cells (and unlike adult stem cells), those harvested from cord blood are particularly versatile and life saving in much the same way bone marrow is, and for the same ailments, most famously leukemia, the blood cancer.
