Leukemia and Cord Blood Stem Cells

Could These Two Little Girls Help Researchers Find the Cure???

These two sweet little girls have opened the door to a new look at leukemia.

The breakthrough came through studying four-year-old identical twins Olivia, who has leukemia, and Isabella, who is healthy. They found that both twins had abnormal ‘pre-leukemia’ stem cells in their blood that can either lie dormant in the bone marrow or develop into full-blown leukemia stem cells. The results were then confirmed with experiments using human cord blood cells.

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Cord Blood Comparable To Matched Bone Marrow, According To Research -Link to Science Daily