Chloe Levine was born seemingly perfect — she was the happy and healthy baby her parents had dreamed of.

But by the time she was 9 months old, Chloe was not reaching the milestones her older sister Shayla had met at that age. The Levines remembered they had banked stem cells from Chloe’s umbilical cord at her birth, and wondered if they could be used to help treat her.

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Stem cell treatment is fast emerging as cure for several chronic diseases, especially chronic spinal injuries. Although experts worldwide are using stem cells from different sources like umbilical cord blood, bone marrow, doctors say that those extracted from umbilical cord blood are very effective.

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Umbilical cord blood transplants have shown good results in the treatment of strokes, spinal cord injuries and brain injuries, according to trials conducted on animals recently. The findings indicate that umbilical cord blood transplants, which have been used in the treatment of childhood leukemia and severe thalassemia, may have broader applications.

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A British surgeon saved a dying heart patient by giving him an artificial heart and injecting him with stem cells to rebuild the damaged muscle in a procedure believed to be a world first, it has been revealed.

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