A student who was diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of 16 has credited a "tiny vial of blood" taken from a placenta and umbilical cord in Spain 12 years earlier for saving her life. Lyra Cassell, 20 ...

Silent cells deep in your spinal cord may hold a surprising key to healing after devastating injuries and brain disease. A ...

Natasha Kirkpatrick donated her daughter’s cord blood when she was born in 2017. In 2022, she needed a blood donation of her ...

Dear Doctors: My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know how ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- In the 1970s, researchers discovered that a newborn's umbilical cord blood contained special stem cells that could help certain diseases. More than 30 years later, doctors are ...

A mother who donated umbilical cord blood after giving birth has described how her own daughter's life was saved by a similar ...

After a spinal cord injury, cells in the brain and spinal cord change to cope with stress and repair tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that this ...

MEDIPOST Inc., a biotechnology company developing allogeneic, umbilical cord blood-derived stem cell therapies for inflammation-driven degenerative diseases, today announced that its parent company, ...