The world’s largest umbilical cord blood bank is to be set up in Mumbai, India through a $20 million investment from the South Korean biotech company, Histostem.世界上最大的臍帶血銀行是設立在印度孟買，通過2000萬美元的投資，韓國的生物科技公司， histostem 。

It aims to provide stem cells for transplant surgeons globally.它的目的是提供幹細胞移植的外科醫生在全球。

By creating similar banks in Mexico, Australia and Europe, and linking them, Histostem expects to offer histocompatibility leucocyte antigen matched stem cells for every patient around the world.通過創建類似的銀行在墨西哥，澳大利亞和歐洲，以及聯繫起來， histostem預計提供組織相容性白細胞抗原相匹配的幹細胞，為每一位病人在世界各地。

The umbilical cord blood stem cells will also be used for research into treatments for diabetes and spinal cord repair.該臍血幹細胞也將用於研究治療糖尿病和脊髓的修復。

Histostem chose India because of its birth rate and its one-billion plus population is genetically diverse enough to match the genetic characteristics of people worldwide. histostem選擇印度是因為其人口出生率和一個十幾億人口的基因的不同，足以匹配的遺傳特點全世界人民。 The bank plans to collect over 400,000 units of umbilical cord blood (which is normally thrown away) in three years.該銀行計劃收集超過40.0萬個單位臍血（這通常是扔掉）在三年。 The baby’s families pay a one-time fee of about $280 and will receive stem cells free if needed to treat blood disorders like thallasemia.嬰兒的家庭支付一個時間費約280元，並會收到免費的幹細胞，如果需要治療血液病一樣， thallasemia 。

The Indian government will receive a 10% equity stake and two seats on the board of directors to ensure that government guidelines are followed.印度政府將接受10 ％的股權和2席的董事局，以確保政府的指引得到遵守。

Source: Nature Biotechnology 23, 1033 - 1034 (2005)資料來源：性質，生物技術23 ， 1033 -1 034（ 2 005）

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