Dr. Soutter helped to create an elaborate system for managing blood and began work advertising for volunteer donors.

In the case of marrow, a potential volunteer donor provides a blood sample, and the tissue type is kept on file for matching purposes.

Experts fear that allegations of questionable conduct may cause the network of volunteer donors to fall apart.

Complying with extensive ethical procedures, the 1000 Genomes Project will then use samples from volunteer donors.

In Kenya, blood donations from volunteer donors nearly tripled in 2 years, from 43,000 units to 117,482 units.

It has registered approximately 200,000 volunteer donors and has access to approximately 1,000 cord blood units.

Blood banks collect blood from volunteer donors.

The potential for contamination in the supply, and the need for volunteer donors was well recognized.

In April 1973 Professor Hobbs and his team were able to achieve the world's first bone marrow transplant using a matched but unrelated volunteer donor.

About 110,000 of the 260,000 volunteer donors listed with the program's national registry were originally recruited by Life-Savers.