Drew Barrymore kept blood from both her daughters' umbilical cords. Stem cells can be used to treat conditions including some cancers and immune system diseases. But it costs a lot and it's unlikely ...

Congress is working to provide an additional five years of funding to the federal programs which oversee donations and banks ...

Bipartisan legislation aims to secure over $280 million for bone marrow and cord blood transplant initiatives, providing hope ...

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 ...

In a recent study published in eBioMedicine, researchers investigated whether human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSCs) could heal luminal ulcers in Crohn’s disease (CD) patients.

TO THE STUDY’S FIRST PATIENT. 82 YEAR OLD LOUIS MEYER HAD A HEART ATTACK OVER 25 YEARS AGO, AND EVER SINCE HE’S DONE EVERYTHING HE CAN TO MANAGE IT, THE DAMAGED PART STARTS TAKING OVER. THAT’S THE ...

Doctors at the Marcus Neuroscience Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital are part of a study using umbilical cord stem cells to treat COVID-19 patients who have developed acute respiratory ...

A 51-year-old anaesthetist in Veldhoven has been ordered to stop giving experimental umbilical cord blood transfusions to ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Brain damage suffered in strokes and other injuries could be repaired with cells found in the blood of umbilical cords, researchers said Sunday. The treatment, described as fast ...