According to an article in the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper, parents in the UK are??paying up to ?2,000 to store their newborn babies’ stems cell – by freezing samples of the umbilical cord, taken at birth.
Doctors say that such stored cells have the potential to be?used to treat a large range of illnesses in future years.
“Storing of umbilical cord blood is now becoming mainstream and widely accepted” ?comments Scott Wolf, CEO and Director of Research of Grace Century.
