Sports stars and stems cells
Elite athletes and stem cells aren’t usually found in the same sentence, but apparently some soccer stars are banking stems cells from their newborns’ umbilical blood as a hedge against future damage.
Some leading English soccer players are storing stem cells from their newborn babies as a potential future treatment for their own career-threatening sports injuries, according to a report in the UK Sunday Times newspaper.
Players are freezing the cells taken from the umbilical cord blood of their babies as a possible future cure for cartilage and ligament problems. Stem cells can be used to regenerate damaged organs and tissue because they are the earliest form of cells.
Presumably they have the means and the potential need. Is this the beginning of a trend?
