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The preservation of your newborn's stem cells, which allows you to have your baby's cord blood saved for potential medical uses to treat life-threatening diseases. If you do not choose to bank your baby’s cord blood, it will be discarded after birth.


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Cord Blood Stem Cells

The blood that remains in your baby's umbilical cord after it has been cut is rich in stem cells. These valuable newborn stem cells are genetically unique to your baby and family and can only be collected in the minutes after your baby's birth.
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:28 PM

Tucson foundation urges parents to save umbilical cord blood stem cells

Did you ever think that a newborn's umbilical cord could be a potential cure for a disease? Current research at the University of Arizona shows that stem cells from cord blood might one day repair a number of medical conditions. But cords are thrown away...
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 5:00 AM

Creating an Umbilical Cord Blood Lifeline

The decision to donate a newborn's umbilical-cord blood is, for many expectant mothers, a simple checkmark on a long list of prenatal choices. But for Noel Beninati, one donor's checkmark offered a lifeline. Last May, Beninati received a transplant of...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:11 AM

High Percentage of Blood Disorder Patients Were Cured or Achieved Remission When Treated with Stem Cells from Their Own Umbilical Cord Blood or a Sibling's

SAN DIEGO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--In a retrospective review of blood disorder patients treated with stem cells from their own cord blood (autologous transplant) or from the cord blood of a sibling (allogeneic-related transplant), the majority of the patients...
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Monday, December 10, 2007 5:00 AM

Cord Blood Registry's (CBR) Designated Transplant Program - Allow Parents to Preserve Their Newborn's Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells Free of Charge

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 10, 2007 - According to the National Marrow Donor Program, on any given day approximately 6,000 patients in this country need a stem cell transplant, but can't find a donor. Many die waiting for a suitable match. Data presented...
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:51 AM

Cord Blood Registry® Continues to Help Advance Regenerative Medicine Research

Cord Blood Registry® Continues to Help Advance Regenerative Medicine Research
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Friday, August 03, 2007 10:17 AM

Cord Blood Registry® Ads Have Hypnotic Effect

An unconventional technique led to the counter-intuitive insight behind a campaign for Cord Blood Registry (CBR). Despite high awareness—around 90%—and acceptance of the need for cord blood banking, fewer than 5% of expectant moms bank. CBR knew it faced...
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:53 AM

Umbilical Cord Blood Registry Becoming A Major Phenomenon In the Medical Community

Undoubtedly, we have come to a stage where cord blood donation in a cord blood registry has taken up a key role in treating various ailments. Cord blood stem cells from your baby’s umbilical cord are considered the building blocks by the medical community...
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Monday, June 25, 2007 1:47 PM

Banking Umbilical Cord Blood Offers Hope

Heidi Hora, 29, of Cedar Rapids, lost her father to Parkinson's disease. Two grandparents had cancer and a third had Alzheimer's. Hora holds out hope that researchers one day will find cures for those diseases. She hangs much that hope on stem cell research...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 5:00 AM

Cord Blood Registry® Launches "Heroic" Campain

Cord Blood Registry (CBR), the world's largest and most experienced cord blood stem cell bank, today announced the launch of a national marketing campaign designed to educate expectant parents about the value of preserving the stem cells contained in...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007 5:31 AM

Cord Blood Registry® Campaign Aims to Increase Awareness of the Importance of Banking Stem Cells

Every year in the U.S., about 15,000 people need a stem-cell transplant, but cannot find a suitable donor match. A new campaign by the Cord Blood Registry aims to increase awareness of cord-blood preservation and to save lives. Collecting cord blood takes...
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 5:00 AM

Cord Blood Registry® Launches "Heroic" Campaign

SAN BRUNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cord Blood Registry (CBR), the world ’ s largest and most experienced cord blood stem cell bank, today announced the launch of a national marketing campaign designed to educate expectant parents about the value of preserving...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:49 AM

Cord Blood Registry® Provides Highest Recovery of Cord Blood Stem Cells With New Automated Processing System

SAN DIEGO, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- A validation study presented today at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Annual Clinical Meeting indicated that new automation technology for cord blood stem cell processing, the AutoXpress...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:28 AM

Cord Blood Registry® Releases an Increasing Number of Stem Cell Samples to Treat a Broad Range of Medical Conditions

Company Also Achieves Record-Setting Enrollment Months in the First Quarter of 2007 SAN BRUNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cord Blood Registry® (CBR®), the world’s largest and most experienced cord blood stem cell bank, today announced that it has released...
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Monday, April 30, 2007 3:30 PM

Spanish Royals Bank Their Baby's Stem Cells at CBR

Madrid - Spain's Princess Letizia and her husband, Crown Prince Felipe de Bourbon, are to store stem cells from their new-born second child, a baby girl named Sofia, to counter potential future illness, media on Monday quoted the prince as saying. "We...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:29 PM

Dr. David Harris Speaks to Congress About Cord Blood Stem Cells

David T. Harris, Ph.D., professor of immunology at the University of Arizona and scientific director at Cord Blood Registry, speaks at a congressional briefing at the Capitol on Wednesday, April 25, 2007. Dr. Harris, a recognized expert in stem cell research...
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