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 ...

Since the establishment of the first public cord blood bank in New York in 1992, a rising number of donors have given their child’s umbilical cord and placenta blood to banks in the growing ...

Cord Blood Registry is a Food and Drug Administration-registered cord blood bank. It stores stem cells from umbilical cord blood or a combination of cord blood and tissue. The stem cell in cord blood ...

If her social media accounts are any indication, model, cookbook author, television personality, and entrepreneur Chrissy Teigen is a wonderful mother. Many parents regard her as a role model. That’s ...

Millions of parents have paid to bank blood from their infants’ umbilical cords. But storage companies have misled them about the cells’ promise. By Sarah Kliff Pregnant women are bombarded with ...

Cord blood banking is a topic that has gained significant attention in recent years, especially among expectant parents. Cord blood is the blood that remains in the umbilical cord and placenta after a ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Cord blood banking is the storage of a baby's cord blood immediately after birth. After ...

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.

OLDSMAR, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cryo-Cell International, Inc. (NYSE American LLC Symbol: CCEL) (“Cryo-Cell”), the world’s first private cord blood bank to separate and store stem cells in 1992, ...