mr. speaker , i rise again to set the record straight . 
there have been some people who have implied there is limited capacity for these cord blood stems to be used successfully . 
they have been shown to be pluripotent . 
they can become all different cell types , and they have shown a tremendous amount of plasticity . 
this poster is of a young lady who was paralyzed for years and had an adult stem cell transplant . 
she is able to stand up . 
but i just want to clarify on the cord blood , it has been used to treat leukemia , adrenoleukodystrophy , burkitt 's lymphoma , chronic granulomatous diseases , congenital neutropenia , digeorge 's syndrome , fanconi 's anemia , and these are just some of them , gaucher 's disease . 
hodgkin 's disease , cord blood has been used successfully to treat hodgkin 's disease ; idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura , which is a really bad disease . 
i used to see some of those . 
krabbe 's disease i mentioned earlier , that was just in the new england journal this month . 
lymphoma ; lymphoproliferative syndrome ; myelofibrosis ; neuroblastoma , which is a form of brain tumor which has been successfully treated with cord blood . 
osteopetrosis has been successfully treated . 
reticular dysgenesis , severe aplastic anemia . 
the list goes on and on . 
there are 65 different medical conditions that have been successfully treated with cord blood . 
people have mentioned diabetes . 
embryonic stem cells have not been successfully used to treat diabetes either , but actually in animal models adult stem cells have been used successfully to treat diabetes . 
i think most of the hope and success is in this cord blood . 
that is why this bill is very , very important . 
