The Cord Blood Registry is one of several companies in the U.S. that "banks" a baby's cord blood. Cord blood banking is suddenly seeing an uptick in sponsored content among social media influencers.

Cord Blood Registry is a Food and Drug Administration-registered cord blood bank. It stores stem cells from umbilical cord blood or a combination of cord blood and tissue. The stem cell in cord blood ...

Umbilical cord and placenta blood, often referred to as “cord blood,” is the blood that is collected from the umbilical and placental tissue at birth. Once stored in “banks,” its stem cells can be ...

Wendy and Steve Grant have made a $100 million business out of something that everyone is born with and is almost always thrown away: stem-cell rich blood from umbilical cords. The Los Altos Hills ...

Lab operations manager Beth Mapother reaches into a dewar at the Cord Blood Registry offices in Tucson, Ariz. The growing number of parents who bank their children’s cord blood believe it is a form of ...

PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against one of America’s biggest “cord blood banking companies” for predatory practices toward parents and their newborn ...

SAN BRUNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cord Blood Registry (CBR), the world’s largest and most experienced cord blood stem cell bank, announced today that it has achieved record processings and ...

Today, Americord Registry announced a new partnership with Smart Cells International, the first cord blood company in the United Kingdom, as part of its initiatives during Cord Blood Awareness Month ...

For 14 years, Bristol obstetrician/gynecologist Dr. Alan L. Gorrell has offered his patients the option of collecting and saving stem cell-rich umbilical cord blood ...

using cord blood donated by a family he will never know. Since then, the 4-year-old boy’s parents, Sean and Michelle Wolford, have been on a mission to make banking of umbilical cord blood a ...

GI Partners is buying two medical-storage companies to take advantage of the growing reproductive sciences field. The private-equity firm is set to acquire the Cord Blood Registry from AMAG ...

Umbilical cord blood banking has become increasingly popular in recent years, with a number of businesses both public and private offering the service. It's a relatively new concept, and there's ...