The Union Health and Family Welfare Minister, Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, on Friday stressed the need for setting up a stem cell bank for breeding human cell for research and development of effective cure for diseases. At the fifth Bangalore Bio conference, he said that with more than 25 million births in the country, umbilical cords were going waste. This could be prevented by setting up a bank for research use. He said the Government was planning to bring in legislation to preserve human stem cells for curing many degenerative diseases by using it for organ culture.