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Official: Iran ranks second worldwide in storing umbilical cord blood stem cells

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Murtaza Zarabi, chief executive of the stem cell technology company Royan, said Iran ranks second worldwide in storing umbilical cord blood stem cells, with more than 265,000 biological samples held in the country. He said the first phase of what he described as the world's first refinery for processing products extracted from delivery-related materials will open in the coming days.

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