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Fact-checking, pros and cons of cord blood banking

January 19, 2021 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 3 Comments

When my wife and I were expecting our first daughter way back in the nineties, we received a paper pamphlet about cord blood banking. Back then, I was a graduate student at UC San Diego School of Medicine working toward my Ph.D. in Molecular Pathology and my wife was in medical school at the time […]

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Cord blood for cerebral palsy: mostly discouraging new trial data

October 31, 2017 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 6 Comments

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Some notable newly published Phase II data from the Duke cord blood for cerebral palsy trial unfortunately doesn’t give much reason for optimism that this approach is going to have a substantial positive effect for these kids. The double-blinded, placebo-controlled study did not find a meaningful benefit overall from infusions of autologous cord blood (ACB) for

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