Meng Xiaoye, the first stem cell donor from Beijing, lies on a bed for blood collection accompanied by her boy friend at a hospital in Beijing, China, Nov. 19, 2003.

Her donation will be directly sent by the Zhonghua Marrow Bank to Shanghai for a transplant operation of a marrow tumor patient. The Zhonghua Marrow Bank has collected 82,000 samples from volunteers by Sept. 2003, and 65 volunteers have successfully donated their stem cells for patients by Oct. 2003.

(Xinhua News Agency  November 20, 2003)