Sunday 30 May 2010

Links of the week- the umbilical cord, its stem cells and why 4 kidneys are better than 2

Hi. Welcome to Weirdbeautiful, both todays links are medical, rather than wildlife stories. The first is about a girl whose body apparently spontaneously grew an extra pair of kidneys to replace her original, malfunctioning ones-

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100518/tod-docs-astonished-as-girl-grows-new-ki-870a197.html

The second link is to a story about research on the benefit of stem cells from the umbilical cord to newborn babies-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1281688/Babies-helped-delay-clamping-umbilical-cord.html

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