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Making the Case for Private Cord Blood Banking: Mission Failed!

Comment to Hollands and McCauley, Stem Cell Rev and Rep 2009;5:195–203

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AHS and CR are joint CEOs and AP is Director of DKMS Lifeline, a public cord blood bank.

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  1. DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center, Tübingen, Germany

    Alexander H. Schmidt & Claudia Rutt

  2. DKMS Lifeline Cord Blood Bank, Dresden, Germany

    Alexander H. Schmidt, Alexander Platz & Claudia Rutt

  3. Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany

    Gerhard Ehninger

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Schmidt, A.H., Platz, A., Rutt, C. et al. Making the Case for Private Cord Blood Banking: Mission Failed!. Stem Cell Rev and Rep 6, 234–236 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12015-009-9112-y

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