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For the last month, we’ve introduced you to several local families who bear the burden of Autism on a daily basis. They make the most of their situation knowing there’s no known cure for Autism and the cause is still very much a mystery. Here’s the statistic. 1 child in every 110 will be born with Autism. That means roughly 97 children born today will be diagnosed with Autism and it doesn’t stop there either. More than 1.5 million Americans live with the disorder which is the fastest growing brain disability in the country with an annual growth rate around 17%. Currently there is no cure, but that could be changing in part to what could be one of the biggest medical breakthroughs in history. And it’s being done with what doctors once deemed medical waste. The phenomenon is called cord blood banking and this week I had the chance to see the process first hand at the Cord Blood Registry, CBR, in Tucson, Arizona. It’s the world’s largest cord blood bank with more than 300000 stored and it has the chance to change the face of medicine forever. “It’s almost as if a light bulb went off in their child’s brain. Their vocabulary starts to increase. They just seem more with it, more alert,” said Christine McMurry, communications director with CBR out of Tucson. Cord blood banking is a process in which parents choose to have the blood from their child’s umbilical cord stored at birth where it will stay until it’s needed again for an infusion or transplant. “In cord blood, it’s new …