After the baby has been delivered, the umbilical cord is clamped and about 2 to 3 ounces of the blood it contains are collected. The blood is then transferred to a specially prepared bag and sent ...

Can it help with Type 1 diabetes? A: The term “cord blood” refers to the fetal blood that remains in the placenta and the umbilical cord after a baby has been delivered. It is rich in stem ...

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 that works and if there are already uses for cord blood.

As placental mammals are the only species that have an umbilical cord that attaches to the placenta in utero, it would be fair to assume they are the only animals that have a “belly button”.

The dynamic cables act as an umbilical cord to the static underwater cables that carry electricity to or from shore. "They're a bit like the power cables we have for all the electrical gadgets that we ...