Baby Stem Cells - Cord Blood & Tissue
Media & Press Articles
Umbilical Cord Blood Lifeline
March 2012, Cape Times
US researchers have begun a groundbreaking trial to test the potential of umbilical cord blood transplants, a kind of stem cell therapy, to treat and possibly reverse hearing loss in infants.
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Stem Cell Storage
December 2011, Your Pregnancy
Storing your newborns stem cells is easier than you may think.
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Stem Cells
December 2011, Your Baby
What does the future hold for regenerative medicine, and what could it mean for your child?
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Banking on the Future
August 2011, Living and Loving
Have you thought about banking your baby’s stem cells? We found out why it’s being done, what the costs are and why parents opt for this procedure.
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Insuring Your Baby's Life
1 October 2010, Your Pregnancy
Stem cell storage is a godsend for some parents, when and if baby falls ill, but beware, there are cost implications too. So what exactly does it entail? And should you consider it?
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Stem Cell Surgery Used To Rebuild A 10-Year-Old Boy's Windpipe
29 March 2010
The British and Italian surgeons at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children took a 10-year-old boy’s bone marrow stem cells, injected them into a windpipe of a donor and implanted the boy with the windpipe stripped off its cells. The implanted stem cells are expected to differentiate into the windpipe cells within the boy’s body and not to be rejected by the boy’s immune system because they originate from his own tissue.
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First Successful Use of Expanded Umbilical-Cord Blood Units to Treat Leukemia
18 January 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 treating leukaemia and other blood cancers.
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Save Your Child's Life In Advance
1 December 2009, Mamas & Papas
Unbelievable advances in medicine, science and technology occur on an almost daily basis. These days, parents can have life-giving umbilical cord blood stem cells taken at the very moment their babies are born, and store them for one day when they may be needed to treat a life-threatening illness.
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Cost-effectiveness of private banking by Suzie Orman
Is it a wise economic decision for parents to invest in private cord blood banking for their family? An alternate approach is to think of cord blood banking the way you think of a stock market investment. Does it show promise of future growth? With that outlook, the TV personality Suzie Orman, who dispenses money advice to the public says: "I am a believer in stem cell research... even if you couldn't quite afford it at this point, figure out how you could"
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