Umbilical Cord Blood -

Scientists use cord stem cells to grow sections of human liver
Scientists in the UK say they have grown tiny sections of human liver. The sections of liver were cr..

Baby's cord a gift of hope Felled by a bullet, Cpl. Chris Klodt looks to stem cells to walk again
When his spine was sliced by a Taliban bullet in Afghanistan last summer, Chris Klodt almost didn't..

Umbilical Cord Transplants Provide Same Outcomes as Related Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplants
According to an article recently published in Blood, using umbilical cord blood for stem cell transp..

Cells passed from mother to child may be first step in developing new treatments for Type 1 diabetes and similar diseases
For the first time, scientists have discovered that cells passed from mother to child during pregnan..

Is there any risk to my child?
There is no risk to mother or child during the cord blood collection process...

When is the cord blood collected?
There is only one time that cord blood can be collected: at birth. Source:..

How is the cord blood collected?
The collection process is easy and painless, and does not interfere with the delivery or subsequ..

How might stem cells be even more useful in the future?
Researchers are now looking to cord blood for answers to: heart disease, stroke and diabetes...