 "Dr Rahul Bhargava")
From being discarded as waste at the time of a baby’s delivery to being recognised as a repository of stem cells and the building blocks of regenerative medicine, the cord blood and tissue has come a long way.
In the late 1980s, a decade when all sorts of exciting things were happening in the world of medicine, physicians discovered that cord blood contained stem cells. The exact use of these cells were ascertained a few years later, with their successful transplant into the body of a child suffering from Fanconi anaemia, a rare genetic disease. The source of cord blood stem
