Some families choose to save their newborn’s cord blood (the blood from the baby left in the umbilical cord and placenta after birth), placenta blood and umbilical tissue in case their child ...

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 ...

The process for an SCT requires a high degree of matching for immune system genetic markers, called HLAs, between the donor and recipient to function ... for blood stem cell transplants: cord blood ...

The umbilical cord attaches to the placenta, which is an organ that develops during pregnancy to transfer blood, oxygen, and nutrition from mother to baby. In the womb, your baby cannot yet ...

Researchers used a new genetic tool to analyze umbilical cord blood from 38 children enrolled in the Newborn Epigenetics Study, a long-term birth cohort study based in North Carolina. They looked ...

Doctors might be able to predict a newborn's long-term health outlook, by analyzing their umbilical cord blood, a new study says. Genetic clues found in cord blood can offer early insight into ...

However, in the world of stem cells, there lies a lifeline in the umbilical cord blood that could go a long way in managing chronic diseases, including cancer. What many medics might not know in ...

For the study, researchers performed genetic analysis on the umbilical cord blood of 38 children enrolled in a long-term study based in North Carolina. The analysis looked for chemical patterns in ...