Cord-Blood-Cell Transplantation — A Real Sleeper?
- 9 February 1995
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 332 (6) , 392-395
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199502093320612
Abstract
In the 1973 movie Sleeper, Woody Allen, about to die from complications of peptic ulcer surgery in a New York City hospital, is wrapped in aluminum foil and frozen. When it was defrosted, the body was healed as a result of two centuries' worth of medical advances. The movie also describes scientists' plans to clone the leader of the country from his nose, the only part to have survived an assassination attempt.Many Journal readers have seen Sleeper. My telephone call to Issaragrisil and coworkers, who report in this issue of the Journal that they have cured a child's . . .Keywords
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