Blog: Scenestars

By Mary Powers via The Commercial Appeal May 28, 2006 The patient's last best hope for a cure was the size and thickness of half a graham cracker and frozen to minus 220 degrees when it arrived outside his Memphis hospital room. Stored inside the plastic pouch were about two tablespoons of stem cells collected from a donated umbilical cord and stored frozen in New York. Patient Arthur Lee and his doctors hope they will accomplish what three earlier rounds of chemotherapy failed to [...]