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 ...

Cord Blood Banking Services offer key market opportunities in non-invasive collection and storage of hematopoietic stem cells for treating conditions like cancer and genetic disorders. Growth ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Most parents-to-be weighing whether to save their newborn’s umbilical ...

The Cord Blood Registry is one of several companies in the U.S. that "banks" a baby's cord blood. Cord blood banking is suddenly seeing an uptick in sponsored content among social media influencers.

Flyers in upscale doctors' offices portray it as the hot new baby-shower gift: a registry where friends and family chip in almost $2,000 to start privately banking a newborn's umbilical cord blood, ...

The vendor landscape of the global UmbilicalCordBloodBankingMarket is highly fragmented owing to the presence of several small scale vendors, with the top three ...

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 ...

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 ...

Private cord blood banking is not cost-effective because it costs an additional $1,374,246 per life-year gained, according to a new analysis by UCSF researchers. The research team also concluded that ...

Cord blood is a rich source of stem cells, the building blocks that produce blood and can be transformed into other cell types. The growing number of parents who bank their children’s cord blood ...

HARTFORD -- Legislators and medical professionals are exploring the possibility of banking umbilical cord blood as a way to potentially save people whose lives are threatened by cancers and other ...

As a parent, the last thing you want to think about is any type of harm befalling your child. And, in the delivery room, all you want to think about is the imminent arrival of your new baby. But more ...