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Storage of umbilical cord blood

14 Dec 2016 | By INSERM (Newsroom) | Uncategorized

Sang cordon ombilical bébé

For the first time in France, a couple has just been given authorisation to entrust a private company with the storage of umbilical cord cells from their unborn child, in view of a potential therapeutic need.

In its Order dated 21 November 2016, the Grasse court authorised the couple to “take and store haematopoietic cells from the umbilical cord and from the placental blood, along with cells from the cord and placenta (…) in light of duly justified therapeutic needs.”

Winner of the 2010 Inserm Honorary Prize, Eliane Gluckman, a haematologist at Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, an Inserm researcher, and a specialist in blood stem cell transplantation, was the first to have performed, in 1987, an umbilical cord blood transplant in a 6 year old child.

See press release from 30 November 2010

Cord blood is currently used to treat patients with blood diseases (leukaemias and lymphomas), and, for certain indications, replaces bone marrow.

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Eliane Gluckman
Prix d’Honneur Inserm 2010
Hôpital St Louis
Laboratoire de recherche clinique cellulaire
01 42 49 98 26
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