Cord Blood Banking – Stanford Medicine Children’s Health

Cord blood banking is an option for parents who want to preserve the blood of the umbilical cord and placenta of their baby as "insurance" to help with possible future medical needs of their child. It can also be used for other biologically matched children, either in their own family or the general public. Cord blood, found in the umbilical cord and placenta, is rich in stem cells.

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Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants: Current Status and Evolving Therapies

Various approaches have been used to expand HSCs and HPCs from UCB with the use of feeder stromal cells, epigenetic modifiers, and small molecules. Over the past decade, UCB expansion has been successfully achieved, demonstrating rapid recoveries of neutrophils and platelets, better rates of engraftment, and fewer days in the hospital as surrogate for reducing costs

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