Yes ... here are some articles and websites with info for you:

http://www.sfn.org/skins/main/pdf/brss/ ... injury.pdf

http://finance.comcast.net/indices/news ... S=33251287

http://askdrsears.com/html/1/T012700.asp

How are umbilical stem cells extracted?

Credible sources would be wonderful.

After delivery of the baby, the cord is clamped and cut. Then a needle is inserted in one of the cord blood vessels, and the blood extracted. It is ten tested, cryopreservative added (to stop damage while frozen) and then stored at -70 degrees C.

They can separate the stem cells from the more mature cell using a flow cytometer cell sorter, but generally this is not done, it is usually analysed to work out the percentage of stem cells in the sample.

Here is a link.

What is umbilical cord stem cell?

In My Estimation, They Should Be Referred to as Pluripotent Cells, Not Stem Cells. I Don't Know the Particular Cell Type (but Have my Suspicions), I Have Only Harvested Cord Blood.

For which diseases or conditions is umbilical cord blood stem-cell therapy most effective? For which diseases or conditions is umbilical cord blood stem-cell therapy most effective?

I don't agree that the answer is "none" when in fact cord blood stem cells has already proven to be effective. Below is a link for a full list of diseases treated by cord blood stem cells.

It seems as if more of the successful stories from using cord blood stem cells are for leukemia, lymphoma and sickle cell anemia.

I can understand why someone is against embryonic stem cells (don't kill a life to make another's more pleasant). Yet why are people againt using something that used to be thrown in the trash can?
This is not about repoduction of the human. This is about curing a sickness of your family (which is possible now).

The fear of repoduction of the human with out any male female involvment
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Think about that one
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You want a baby you go to a Pick Your Baby shop and brows the catalog to see what is avaliable that you may like
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And the YOU is one a singular YOU no one else
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We then would be about as important as that one leaf on a tree in a forest
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Who cares if it dies just replace it with a duplicate to continue its position in society
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How would you like to live in a world as this
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Twilight Zone all over again
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