Consider the poignant story of your baby's umbilical cord. For nine months it faithfully served as your baby's lifeline. It provided him with oxygen, with nutrients, with life itself. Now -- forgotten ...

Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is increasingly studied for regenerative therapies, yet the impact of different collection techniques on cell yield and quality remains unclear. This study compared standard ...

Could cord tissue stem cells change how we treat chronic pain and disease?

A treatment to move blood from the umbilical cord into the body of newborns who are limp, pale and with minimal breathing, known as non-vigorous, does not appear to increase the risk of ...

On March 18, 2026, Chief Judge Brian C. Wimes of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri issued a significant ...

Umbilical cord blood banking is useful due to its role in transplantation. Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) possess the ability to reconstitute any blood cell type, offering the potential to treat ...

The umbilical cord also termed as the navel string or funiculus umbilicalis, is the channel between the developing fetus and the placenta. It carries oxygenated blood and nutrients from the placenta ...

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Allogeneic bone-marrow transplantation is the best treatment for patients with haematological cancers. This procedure, however, is limited by lack of suitable donors, as well as the complications of ...

During pregnancy the umbilical cord supplies your developing baby with nutrients and oxygen, acting as a lifeline between her body and the placenta. Once your baby is born, however, she doesn’t need ...