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unusual facts about umbilical cord



Ty Wigginton

Following the instructions of an operator on 9-1-1, he delivered the baby in a bedroom closet of their North Carolina home and tied off the umbilical cord with one of his shoelaces.


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Blood substitute

In 2013 a group scientists from IIT - Madras, India claimed that they were able to generate a quadrillion amount of pure Red blood cells from a million number of stem cells collected from umbilical cord in few weeks.