If you are considering cord blood banking during pregnancy, you should know how these stem cells can be used in various ...

If her social media accounts are any indication, model, cookbook author, television personality, and entrepreneur Chrissy Teigen is a wonderful mother. Many parents regard her as a role model. That’s ...

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 ...

Some private UK biobanks may be misleading expectant parents about the value of storing umbilical cord blood to treat life-threatening diseases that may arise in their child in the future, reveals an ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Omisirge (omidubicel-onlv), a substantially modified allogeneic cord blood-based cell therapy, to cut the risk of infection in patients with blood cancer ...

Patients who receive umbilical cord blood transplants for blood cancers now live equally long regardless of their race, new research from UVA Cancer Center shows. The findings, from UVA Health's Karen ...

Researchers have developed a new method to recreate a robust and functional human immune system in mice using mononuclear cells from the cord blood. This new kind of mice, that count with most of the ...

The FDA has approved the first ever umbilical cord blood product for use in stem-cell transplants. Hemacord is indicated for use in hematopoietic stem cell transplants in patients with disorders ...

Doctors told Queensland grandfather Mark Taylor in November last year he was unlikely to survive until Christmas the following month.

Sidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, has signed an agreement with The View Hospital to offer its umbilical cord bloo ...