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Cord blood introduction Francis Bacon once wrote that science progresses by a succession of small steps through a fog through which even the keen sighted explorer can seldom see more than few paces ahead; occasionally, the fog lifts and an eminence is gained, and scientific truth gets kaleidoscopically rearranged into fact and fiction. In the year 1988, a 6-year-old boy from North Carolina with Fanconi anemia was transplanted with HLA-matched umbilical cord blood from his baby sister by Prof. Elaine Gluckman in Paris. Nobody at that time dreamt of the enormous possibilities of such an experimentation (Gluckman E, et al. Hematopoietic reconstitution in a patient with Fanconi

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