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By Divya Ramamurthi
BANGALORE, APRIL 11. Manipal Hospital has been granted Rs. 1. 8 crore by the Department of Biotechnology for setting up a stem cell laboratory. The hospital will initially focus on use of stem cells in corneal transplants and treatment of nervous disorders, diabetes and coronary heart diseases. "Indians are highly susceptible to diabetes and heart attacks. We need to constantly find new treatment methods," a hospital official said. Stem cells are unspecialised cells that renew themselves for long periods through cell division and, which have, under certain physiologic or experimental conditions, the capability to become cells with special functions such as the beating cells of the heart muscle or the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. The hospital plans to start an in-vitro fertilisation clinic and an umbilical cord blood bank to source stem cells. Stem cells from the umbilical cord are being viewed as an alternative to bone marrow as a source of stem cells. "We have already trained our nurses in storing cord blood," the official added. At present, a lot of these cells for research are being imported from the U.S. and the U.K. "With the setting up of the IVF clinic, we hope to be able to develop our own stem cell lines," the official said. Manipal Hospital is considering becoming part of the "Bangalore cluster" of institutions that are coming together to work on stem cell research. Cryocell, the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences and the Centre for Human Genetics are part of the cluster.
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