Seyed Hadi Mousavi who was speaking in a meeting organized by Kurdistan provincial Islamic Development Organization office in Sanandaj to honor the blood donors in the public, said that stem cells had two distinct properties of proliferation and differentiation; “different types of stem cells are hematopoietic stem cells of embryo and umbilical cord; the sources of mesenchymal stem cells are bone marrow, peripheral and umbilical cord blood, which is collectable immediately postnatal,” he said, “the more umbilical cord blood is collected, the more stem cells we will have,” he added.
