Top 10 items to include in your baby registry
Discover the top 10 must-have items to include in your baby registry, from essentials to helpful gadgets
The hospital bag checklist
Prepare for delivery with this comprehensive hospital bag checklist, covering essentials for mom, baby, and the birthing partner
Sibling cord blood tested for treating cerebral palsy in young children
Small clinical trial looks at the safety of using sibling umbilical cord stem cells to treat children with cerebral palsy
Stem cells to beta cells: Treating type 1 diabetes with converted stem cells
Researchers convert human stem cells into insulin-producing beta cells using small molecules
Clinical trials: What are they and why do we need them?
This article will introduce you to clinical trial basics and discuss how clinical trials can identify new therapies involving stem cells.
Stem cell banking: how your baby’s stem cells are collected and stored
A quick guide to how your baby’s cord blood and cord tissue stem cells are processed and stored, so they are ready and available for use anytime.
Why should you consider banking cord blood?
Here are the top 3 reasons behind why you should consider preserving your baby’s newborn stem cells.
Umbilical cord stem cells enhance the survival rates in critically ill COVID-19 patients
According to a small clinical trial, patients on ventilators due to COVID-19 are 2.5 times more likely to recover following umbilical cord stem cell treatment.
Clinical trials investigate the use of stem cell therapy for treating COVID-19
Will we be able to curb this pandemic effectively? Will the solution be a vaccine, an anti-viral, stem cell therapy, or perhaps a combination of all?
Extending stem cell compatibility with antibodies
Donor compatibility is one of the biggest bottlenecks associated with hematopoietic stem cell transplants.
Clinical trial using umbilical cord stem cells for treating severe COVID-19 shows promising results
Successful clinical trial calls for additional larger trials to examine the use of mesenchymal stems cells to improve survival rates and recovery time
Commemorating World Cord Blood Day: Why you should consider saving your baby’s cord blood
Today, cord blood transplants are used to treat more than 80 different diseases.
Scientists look at therapies using newborn stem cells to treat COVID-19
Here we outline clinical trials exploring stem cells, emphasizing those looking at utilizing perinatal stem cells derived from cord blood, the umbilical cord, and other placental tissue.
FDA approves clinical trial exploring the use of umbilical cord stem cells to treat severe cases of COVID-19
In the wake of the pandemic, the FDA approves multiple clinical trials exploring stem cells as a treatment option for COVID-19.
Viruses, immunity and stem cells
Explore the link between infections, immunity, and stem cells in this blog post.
Transplant of patients’ own stem cells improves survival in older adults with multiple myeloma
A study from the journal of Bone Marrow Transplantation shows that older multiple myeloma patients who received a transplant of their own stem cells following chemotherapy survived significantly longer than patients who received the standard treatment of chemotherapy alone.
