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TechKnow: Banking cord blood to save lives

TechKnow: Banking cord blood to save lives

This Saturday, July 19th at 7:30 pm ET/4:30 pm PT (Repeats 10:30P ET/7:30P PT), Al Jazeera America’s “TechKnow” shows us one of the most exiting areas of… Read more »

Survey: Americans Favor Expanded Cord Blood Stem Cell Research

Survey: Americans Favor Expanded Cord Blood Stem Cell Research

SAN BRUNO, Calif., July 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Far from being sharply divided, the American people are in broad support of more stem cell research, according to… Read more »

Meet Cord Blood Registry’s Leader of Laboratory Operations

Meet Cord Blood Registry’s Leader of Laboratory Operations

Cord Blood Registry takes pride in leading the cord blood banking industry with its state-of-the-art lab. Meet Kristen, who leads the effort to make sure we’re providing… Read more »

CBR: Umbilical Stem Cell Overview

CBR: Umbilical Stem Cell Overview

Cord Blood Registry Launches Industry-Leading Innovations for Newborn Stem Cell Collection New Collection System Offers Parents Opportunity to Preserve a Greater Number and Diversity of Their Newborn’s… Read more »

First Successful Use of Expanded Umbilical-Cord Blood Units to Treat Leukemia

First Successful Use of Expanded Umbilical-Cord Blood Units to Treat Leukemia

ScienceDaily (Jan. 18, 2010) — Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have cleared a major technical hurdle to making umbilical-cord-blood transplants a more widely-used method for… Read more »

Primetime Special on Cord Blood Stem Cell Therapy

Primetime Special on Cord Blood Stem Cell Therapy

Two cerebral palsy patients and CBR clients who are experiencing positive results after undergoing reinfusion of their own cord blood stem cells were featured on the NBC… Read more »

Placentas could be an important source of stem cells to fight disease

Placentas could be an important source of stem cells to fight disease

By Sandy Kleffman, Contra Costa Times The human placenta could be an important source of stem cells for curing leukemia, sickle cell disease and other blood-related disorders,… Read more »