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National
guidelines on umbilical cord blood banking in the offing
Responding to the increasing demand of umbilical cord blood,
super cells that are harvested to cure a gamut of malignancies
like leukaemia, Hodgkin’s disease, varieties of anaemia
and inherited metabolic disorders, the Indian Council for
Medical Research (ICMR), the Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
and the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) will now issue
guidelines on umbilical cord blood banking facilities as part
of the policy on stem cell research.
What
ails Bone Marrow Transplant in India
Bone Marrow Transplant programme, started way back in 70s,
is crippled by expensive treatment, lack of specialists and
shortage of transplant centres, finds out Shardul Nautiyal.
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