Mainly leading footballers and also players of differents games are highly interested to store stem cells from their newborn babies as a potential future treatment for their own career-threatening sports injuries, according to a report in the Sunday Times.

Stem cells can be used to regenerate damaged organs and tissue because they are the earliest form of cells.

As a footballer, if you’re prone to injury it can mean the end of your career, so having your stem cells - a repair kit if you like - on hand makes sense.

The Times said that in the past five years more than 11 000 parents have paid up to £1 500 to store their babies’ stem cells in order to grow tissue, should their children become ill.

Thousands of successful umbilical cord blood stem cell transplants have already been carried out to treat children with severe blood conditions or immune disorder.

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