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 ...

Kamila Saradpon is a nine-year-old from National City who enjoys art and cooking with her dad. Her parents Maria and Kris have their hands full with Kamila and her six-year-old sister Mikayla. One of ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Designed to maximize productivity for blood processing centers, new Thermo Scientific blood banking centrifuges offer increased capacity that exceeds legacy centrifuge ...

Four years ago, I banked my daughter's cord blood. When I was pregnant, I saw a poster that read: "Saving your child's cord blood could save your child's life," in my obstetrician's office. An ad on ...

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 ...

Cord blood banking was all the rage about a decade ago. Companies pitched it almost as an insurance policy for a child’s future health, preserving the stem cells in the blood for life-saving ...

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 ...

Cord blood banking is the storage of a baby's cord blood immediately after birth. After collection, cord blood is frozen and can be stored for many years without degradation. In case, this cord blood ...

IN TONIGHT’S WOMAN’S DOCTOR, IF YOU’RE INTO YOUR SECOND TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY, YOUR DOCTOR MAY HAVE TALKED WITH YOU ABOUT CORD BLOOD BANKING. THAT’S WHEN YOUR BABY’S UMBILICAL. CORD BLOOD IS ...

Haier Biomedical (SHA: 688139) participated at the ISBT Congress 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, presenting its blood product portfolio ...

In the fall of 1988, Matthew Farrow, a 5-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder, received the world’s first transplant of umbilical-cord blood from a newborn sibling. It worked: Farrow was cured.