Shanghai to build cord-blood bank

时间：2007-09-05 01:00:00

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Chinanews, Shanghai, September 3 – Shanghai will build a cord-blood bank storing at least 10,000 samples at a time in 2010, to meet the increasing demand for hematopoietic stem cells transplant. Theoretically, the cord-blood bank will serve as a bone marrow1 bank with about 100,000 to 500,000 donors2.

 

The hematopoietic stem cells in cord-blood can be used to treat some 80 kinds of diseases. Besides, it is more likely for patients to find appropriate cord-blood than suitable bone marrow donors, not to mention that cord-blood transplant usually leads to much lighter3 side-effects than bone marrow transplant.

 

Last year, only 3,000 mothers donated or kept the cord-blood of their babies, accounting4 for only 2% of the total new mothers that year. The collection of cord-blood is after cutting off the umbilical cord, thus no harm or pain will be caused to the baby.

 

The cord-blood can also be used without side-effects to cure the hematopoiesis disease of the baby if it unfortunately afflicted with such diseases

 
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1 marrow M2myE     
n.骨髓；精华；活力
参考例句：
  • It was so cold that he felt frozen to the marrow. 天气太冷了，他感到寒冷刺骨。
  • He was tired to the marrow of his bones.他真是累得筋疲力尽了。
2 donors 89b49c2bd44d6d6906d17dca7315044b     
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者
参考例句：
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 lighter 5pPzPR     
n.打火机，点火器；驳船；v.用驳船运送；light的比较级
参考例句：
  • The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
  • The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。
4 accounting nzSzsY     
n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表
参考例句：
  • A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
  • There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。

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