They can get a stem cell transplant using cord blood because it uses cells left behind in the blood in the umbilical cord and placenta. Cord blood transplants don't need the strict match that bone ...

Umbilical cord blood transplant has been successfully performed for CML patients in accelerated phase or blastic transformation. [87,88,89] The utility of cord blood transplants for adult ...

Outcomes after haploidentical transplant for severe aplastic anemia have improved significantly with use of post-transplant cyclophosphamide. Umbilical cord blood transplant outcomes also have ...

Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, said CBR Systems' business practices represented "consumer fraud at its worst." ...

Cord blood banking is a topic that has gained significant attention in recent years, especially among expectant parents. Cord blood is the blood that remains in the umbilical cord and placenta after a ...

Scientists have grown blood stem cells in the laboratory for the first time in a move that could potentially end the need for stem cell transplants. During a stem cell (or bone marrow) transplant ...

In health centres across the country, the umbilical cord is disposed ... tandem and success of the overall transplantation is the selection of cord blood unit for the graft, therefore, it is ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered how proteins expressed in umbilical cord blood at birth evolve during gestational development and could serve as biomarkers to inform new ...