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 ...

Umbilical cord and placenta blood, often referred to as “cord blood,” is the blood that is collected from the umbilical and placental tissue at birth. Once stored in “banks,” its stem cells can be ...

Lab operations manager Beth Mapother reaches into a dewar at the Cord Blood Registry offices in Tucson, Ariz. The growing number of parents who bank their children’s cord blood believe it is a form of ...

Blood saved from newborns' umbilical cords could help treat nearly 12,000 people a year who have leukemia and other diseases. But there is no uniform standard for storing the blood, according to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four-year-old Tristan Ford, left, needed a stem-cell transplant as an infant. He got one from the public umbilical cord blood bank ...

OLDSMAR, Fla., June 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cryo-Cell International, Inc. (OTCQB:CCEL) (the “Company”), the world’s first private cord blood bank to separate and store stem cells in 1992, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. St. Louis has one of the world's largest collections of umbilical cord blood, but it needs to diversify. The St. Louis Cord Blood ...

Umbilical cord blood, often discarded as medical waste, could provide life-saving treatment to certain patient populations. And a Warrensville Heights-based cord blood center is leading an effort to ...

WASHINGTON — Blood saved from newborns' umbilical cords could help treat about 11,700 Americans a year with leukemia and other devastating diseases, yet most is routinely thrown away, a panel of ...