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

When her daughter was born, Natasha decided to donate her umbilical cord blood – two years later, her baby was diagnosed with ...

The cushioning material or matrix within the umbilical cord known as Wharton's jelly is a rich and readily available source of primitive stem cells, according to findings by a research team at Kansas ...

After a small study suggested stem cells from umbilical cords offered coronavirus patients a safe treatment, boosting survival rates and fast-tracking recovery, outside experts are echoing calls for ...

A team of Texas and British researchers have produced embryonic-like stem cells from umbilical-cord blood, a breakthrough that could overcome the controversy holding back the cutting-edge field. The ...

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 ...

The FDA has approved a phase 1/2a study evaluating the use of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells for the treatment of patients with severe cases of COVID-19. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

A woman appears to have been cured of HIV with a therapy using stem cells in umbilical cord blood, scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center say, making her the fourth person, ...

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 ...