April 10th is National Sibling Day and it’s also the perfect time to discuss siblings and cord blood. There are many benefits to storing cord blood for your baby but what if you already have children and you didn’t know about cord blood banking when they were born?...
Cord blood clinical trials for cerebral palsy have received a lot of press over recent years, especially as patient stories have reported such dramatic improvements. These clinical trials have typically focused on autologous cord blood infusions – infusing a child’s...
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’re taking a brief look at the career of one of the most pioneering women in modern medicine; Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg. Joanne Kurtzberg & the first cord blood transplants. Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg is a researcher at Duke...
“Stem cell transplants have freed patients with type 1 diabetes of daily insulin injections'” The Daily Telegraph has said. The news comes after research that allowed volunteers to go, on average, for two and a half years without using the multiple daily...
When Chloe Levine was 9-months-old, her parents noticed she couldn’t hold her bottle with her right hand. That wasn’t her only developmental setback. Chloe, of Pinetop, Arizona, was unable to raise both hands above her head, and she could not crawl. At 12 months, a...
