Umbilical cord blood banking Stem cell research

What you need to know about umbilical cord blood banking

We have wrote about umbilical cord blood banking and stem cell research several time in our previous articles and we had also touched the subject of possible cures these might hold. As the process of collecting umbilical cord blood is with absolutely no risk for the infant or the mother, umbilical cord blood banking is [...]

Umbilical cord blood

Since in our previous articles we have discussed about umbilical cord blood banking and stem cell research, we now would like to talk more in depth about umbilical cord blood, and what is it. The umbilical cord is part of the fetus, and is basically the connection between the developing embryo and fetus with the [...]

Stem cells and cell regeneration

Right after the discovery of stem cells in umbilical cord blood the 1970’s scientists have theorized the possibility of using stem cells for tissue regeneration and by this making the dangerous and often unsuccessful tissue and organ transplants obsolete. Due to the stem cells basic characteristics and by this we mean their division and transformation [...]

Stem cells and heart conditions

During the last decade, we have heard more and more about stem cells and stem cell research. All over the world, healthy people and those with medical conditions are watching the results of research, and they are waiting when today’s incurable diseases will be treatable, while they are focusing more and more on umbilical cord [...]

Stem cells and stem cell therapies

Discovering that umbilical cord blood contains stem cells have opened the door to a whole other world and brought hope in curing a whole list of disease labeled incurable. Experts are hoping that stem cell research will bring us closer in understanding how stem cells are transforming into specialized cells that are the building blocks [...]

Stem cells and stem cell research

In our previous post we have discussed umbilical cord blood collection and storage, and why do people do (and need) this. During our article, we have touched the subject of stem cells and stem cell research, but since this is a quite large subject, we promised to discuss it in a future post. In the [...]

Umbilical cord blood banking today?

For some time now, many of us heard about umbilical cord blood banking, stem cell research and the possible advantages these may hold in the future in curing illnesses thought incurable until now. Although there are several disputes upon the matter of umbilical cord blood banking, my intentions here are only to show the facts, [...]