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 ...

The umbilical cord — the lifeline between mother and baby — was historically discarded as medical waste after birth. Today, an increasing number of parents are choosing to preserve the cord blood for ...

Cord blood banking is a topic that has gained significant attention in recent years, especially among expectant parents. Cord blood is the blood that remains in the umbilical cord and placenta after a ...

Dear Doctors: My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know how ...

Stem cells taken from babies’ umbilical cords can delay the progression of type 1 diabetes in other people, a small trial has shown. Type 1 diabetes usually begins in teenagers and young adults, when ...

The decision to donate a newborn’s umbilical-cord blood is, for many expectant mothers, a simple checkmark on a long list of prenatal choices. But for Noel Beninati, one donor’s checkmark offered a ...

When the news came out last month that a New York woman was likely cured of HIV/AIDS by the same cord blood transplant she had received to save her from leukemia, Dr. Filippo Milano’s telephone at ...

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 ...

Tampa, FL (June 5, 2002) — Intravenous injections of cells from human umbilical cord blood improved the neurological and motor function of rats recovering from severe traumatic brain injury, ...

A British teenager with a rare form of cancer had her life saved by blood taken from the umbilical cord of a baby born in ...