Sir Richard Branson's latest venture is a bank which will allow parents to store stem cells from their children.
For around £1,500, the new company will take a sample of blood from a child’s umbilical cord and place it in frozen storage.
Some scientists believe advances in medicine will in the future allow stem cells to be used to cure diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and cancer.
If this happens, a child who falls ill later in life may have a much better chance of survival if they have an exact stem cell match in storage.
Have you never been on a Virgin train?
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If they ever created a cloned baby from these stem cells, would it be a Virgin birth?
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