Cord Blood Banking

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.

Why are Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells Worth Saving?

"Stem cells are immature cells that can both reproduce themselves and have the potential to turn into other types of cells. There are several types. The ones in umbilical cord blood and bone marrow are called hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs), according to WebMD."

No one debates that cord blood cells can be lifesaving. "Cord blood is a proven, effective source of blood-forming stem cells for people with certain diseases," Stephen Feig, professor of pediatrics at UCLA, tells WebMD.



Newborn Stem Cells In The News

A Californian Woman's Life Saved by Cord Blood Stem Cells
As reported by Fox News

Woman was diagnosed with leukemia after she battled breast cancer. She then decided to undergo a treatment with umbilical cord blood stem cells – and the procedure saved her life, KNSD-TV reported.

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Monday, December 21, 2009 12:19 PM

Heart Attack Treatments from Stem Cells

An intravenous method of injecting stem cells into patients who had experienced heart attacks within the previous 10 days suggested that this method works to repair -- not just manage -- heart damage, a recent study found. The study is a step forward...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:14 PM

Suze Orman Discusses the Benefits of Umbilical Cord Blood Banking

Suze Orman discusses the benefits of cord blood storage and stem cell research! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HN4lbDF4Wg
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Friday, April 11, 2008 5:09 AM

Don't Lump All Stem Cell Research Together -- Umbilical Cord Blood Differences

President Bush opposes stem cell research. Wrong. President Bush opposes federally funded stem cell research. Note the difference. Full Article
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Friday, June 01, 2007 5:00 AM

Cord Blood Stem Cell Research Successfully Makes Insulin

Galveston, TX (LifeNews.com) -- Advocates of embryonic stem cell research and the disease industry in America are convinced that using stem cells that are only derived from destroying human embryos is the only way to help those with diabetes. Yet, scientists...
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Monday, May 28, 2007 10:38 AM

Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells Produce Insulin

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stem cells taken from the umbilical cords of newborns can be engineered to produce insulin and may someday be used to treat diabetes, U.S. and British researchers reported on Friday. They said they were able to first grow large...
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Friday, May 25, 2007 9:56 AM

Umbilical Cord Blood Successfully Engineered to Make Insulin Discovered

GALVESTON, Texas -- In a fundamental discovery that someday may help cure type 1 diabetes by allowing people to grow their own insulin-producing cells for a damaged or defective pancreas, medical researchers here have reported that they have engineered...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:01 AM

Nephroblastoma Overexpressed (NOV) May Be Able to Amplify Stem Cells in Cord Blood

... "Cord blood donations contain sufficient numbers of stem cells to treat children but single donations are generally not enough for use in adults. We are actively pursuing whether Nov can amplify stem cells in cord blood. If so, cord blood could potentially...
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Monday, April 30, 2007 5:05 AM

How Do Stem Cells Cure Cancer?

The defining properties of stem cells are their ability when they divide to either give further stem cells and/or differentiated (more specialised) cell types. The latter may still be able to undergo a limited number of cell divisions, but they are not...
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Sunday, April 29, 2007 5:00 AM

Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Used in Treatment of Degenerative Brain Disease

Scott Nugent is refusing to give up on life. He tells Jane Hall why he is pinning his hopes on pioneering stem cell treatment to give him extra time with his family. People who have never had to live with something like this, they don't understand. I...
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Saturday, April 28, 2007 1:51 PM

Leukemia Stem Cell 'Created' by Reasearchers

Imagine if scientists could peer into the blood and see the very first aberrant cells that will give birth to leukemia, then watch as the disease slowly progresses and takes over the body. Well, Canadian researchers have done just that—converted normal...
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Friday, April 27, 2007 2:15 PM

Cord Blood Stem Cells to Treat Children with Leukaemia

Leukaemia patients could be helped by the discovery of a gene that regulates the body's blood production. The Nov gene makes a protein that plays a crucial role in turning bone marrow stem cells into functioning blood cells. Stem cells are immature cells...
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:00 AM

Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplant Saves Baby's Life

A fter a five-month search for a bone-marrow donor, Baby Giovanni could be released from Children’s Hospital in Boston within the next month, thanks to a life-saving stem cell procedure. The 8-month-old Belmont, N.H., infant, who has become an international...
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 5:00 AM

Stem Cell Debate Renewed

DOVER -- It worked before and members of A Rose and a Prayer are hoping that 2,500 roses will help turn away a bill that would regulate embryonic stem cell research. Steve Jenkins, the group's president, said more than 400 people converged on Legislative...
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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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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:00 AM

Senate Approves Bill Allowing State Tax Dollars for Stem Cell Research

--> A bill allowing the University of Minnesota to use state tax dollars for all types of stem cell research won state Senate backing Wednesday after a lengthy debate over medical ethics. The 36-26 vote leaves the Senate short of the two-thirds majority...
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