Stem cell science saves lives - Newspaper - Mail & Guardian Online: the object of her attention is not a baby. It is a placenta, which was, until about five minutes ago, attached to 4.1kg Princess Gracie, who is crying lustily in the birthing room next door with her mum Charlotte Cribben and dad Andre Kum.
"It has done its job for Princess Gracie," explains Duffy. "And now the precious stem cells it contains could cure another child or adult of leukaemia or another blood disease."
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