What is umbilical cord blood? Umbilical cord blood is the blood that can be collected from your baby’s umbilical cord and the placenta after they are born. Umbilical cord blood contains billions of powerful stem cells to treat over 80 different diseases. They may even...
The stem cells in your baby’s cord blood are the most potent that they will ever have. With cord blood banking, you can collect these powerful cells from the umbilical cord and placenta and store them for use in stem cell therapies; this ensures that your baby will...
Cell Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an auto-immune disease where the patient’s immune system attacks the myelin sheaths surrounding and protecting nerve fibres in the central nervous system. In June, a clinical trial began that plans...
A Phase II trial investigating the use of umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to treat bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in premature infants has shown promising initial results, giving way to a larger Phase II study, focusing on a subset of babies who...
World Kidney Day is a global campaign aiming at raising awareness of the importance of our kidneys to overall health and reducing the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems. This annual event takes place worldwide, with hundreds of...
96% of Cells4Life customers would store cord blood for their next child, according to a new poll we are publishing today. Earlier this year, we asked more than 2,000 of our customers one simple question: ‘if you had another child, would you choose to store again?’...