Footballers using babies as ‘repair kits’


LONDON: Premiership footballers are storing stem cells from their newborn babies to use in case of their own career-threatening sports injuries, according to a report yesterday. 

They are freezing cells taken from the umbilical cord blood of their babies as a possible future cure for cartilage and ligament problems, the Sunday Times newspaper reported. 

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