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Friday, April 15, 2011

Store blood cells from Fukushima workers - Lancet letter

Store blood cells from Fukushima workers - Lancet letter

Paris (AFP) April 15, 2011
A group of Japanese doctors on Friday urged workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant to have their blood stemcells stored as a safeguard should they be exposed to life-threatening levels of radiation. The technique entails storing so-called autologous peripheral blood stem cells (PBSCs), which are immature cells that differentiate into blood cells
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