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Peter Diamonds and Bob Hariri

Frozen placentas could be the ticket to a long and healthy life

23 May 2018

Placentas are usually discarded, yet they are packed full of stem cells. Now Bob Hariri and XPrize founder Peter Diamandis aim to harness their potential
I paid £2000 to bank my son’s cord blood, but couldn’t use it

I paid £2000 to bank my son’s cord blood, but couldn’t use it

16 August 2017

An anonymous father says after storing the expensive cells, his son developed a condition that the blood could not treat

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