English Soccer Players Storing Their Children’s Stem Cells

Interesting news: some leading English soccer players are storing stem cells from their own newborn babies as a potential repair kit for any own career-threatening sports injuries. This was reported in the U.K. Sunday Times newspaper.

“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 player is one of five who have frozen their children’s stem cells with Liverpool-based CryoGenesis International (CGI), a commercial stem cell bank. Source: Reuters

They have the money to do this, so I can’t fault them, I guess, though most of the people who are storing stem cells in the U.K. are storing them for their children, not themselves. The players, however, definitely want to keep their careers (and their money), so I can see why they’re doing this. I don’t see stem cells as being using for ACL repair or anything like that, so this to me is more hype and hope than anything else. Still with advances coming all the time, who knows?

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