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Umbilical-cord blood transplant can save babies with metabolic disorders
Dec 11 2007, Arpita Mukherjee

Every year, millions of children are born across the world. Of these newly born babies, a sizable amount are born with a number of inherent metabolic disorders that require bone marrow transplants as the only viable option to keep them alive....

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