Ireland is seriously lagging behind most other countries in offering live-saving treatments provided by the use of adult stem cells, a leading international medical expert has warned.

The advances made in medicine over the past century and a half have been phenomenal.

Ireland needs to vigorously pursue stem cell research, a new organisation has insisted today.

IRISH maternity hospitals need to soften their opposition to the collection and preservation of stem cells from the umbilical cords of newborns, according to one of the country’s leading stem cell researchers.

HUMAN tissue producing insulin has been created from cord blood stem cells obtained from umbilical cords of newborn children.