China opens “Bone Marrow Bank” in Beijing, stores samples from 1.77 million blood donors

Located in Beijing’s Zhongguancun Life Science Park, the building uses over 100 super large refrigerators running at -66°C. China currently has 70,000 new leukemia patients each year, half of whom are children. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is an effective treatment for leukemia , but success depends on whether the transplant between donors and patients with HLA ( human leukocyte histocompatibility antigen ) matches

China Bio news release, May 14, 2014

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