Q: My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, ...

These stem cells are highly active when sourced from umbilical cord blood but remain in a "dormant" and inactive state when obtained from adult bone marrow donors. Using modified mRNA technology ...

While donating your baby’s cord blood can be free ... you’ll get a shot of a medication that will help your bone marrow make more stem cells. These will then move into your bloodstream ...

Cord blood as a source of stem cells offers many benefits over bone marrow and peripheral blood: It is stored in cord blood banks after collection and is available on demand, reducing the wait time ...

Bone marrow transplants, which are also referred to as stem cell transplants, have been used for over seven decades and are a curative treatment for an array of malignant and non-malignant blood and ...

Jeff Auletta, MD, discussed the ACCESS trial and explained that mismatched unrelated donor transplants can be a viable option ...

Haematopoietic stem cells ... all types of blood cells, including those of the myeloid and lymphoid lineages, and to replace themselves. In adults, they mainly reside in the bone marrow.

Director, Paediatrics, Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre explains how stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine have the ...