Perspectives of a Stem Cell Donor Family

Posted: July 27, 2011 at 4:07 pm



"Your twin daughters have an extremely rare, fatal disease called Niemann Pick Type C and there's nothing you can do for them." Those were the devastating words that Chris Hempel and her husband first heard in 2007. Rather than just give in to this fate, the Hempels are proactively engaging researchers to try to save Addi and Cassi's lives. This journey includes donating skin samples to cell banks so that researchers can create induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, a promising technology which may help undercover treatments for their daughters

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Perspectives of a Stem Cell Donor Family

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