This is probably going on in other sports:
Players are freezing the cells taken from the umbilical cord blood of their babies as a possible future cure for cartilage and ligament problems. Stem cells can be used to regenerate damaged organs and tissue because they are the earliest form of cells.The paper quoted one unnamed Premier League player from a northwest club as saying: “We decided to store our new baby’s stem cells for possible future therapeutic reasons, both for our children and possibly for myself.”
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