FAQs

Question: What is cord blood?
Answer: Quite simply, cord blood is the remaining blood from your baby"s umbilical cord and placenta after birth. Cord blood is loaded with our ...

Question: Why cord blood?
Answer: A few years ago, cord blood was simply discarded as medical waste after a birth. However in the past few years doctors have recognized that the ...

Question: May harvesting and banking cord blood be intrusive or risky to a mother or baby?
Answer: Harvesting and banking cord blood is a fairly simple procedure that can be performed during vaginal or cesarian deliveries without interrupting ...

Question: Are there some arguments against of cord blood banking?
Answer: The most obvious argument against is that the odds of needing cord blood for medical treatment is very, very slim. No accurate estimates exist ...

Question: Have cord blood ever being used to treat any disease?
Answer: Currently, cord blood is being used to treat malignant diseases such as Leukemia, Lymphoma, Neuroblastoma and numerous other types of cancer. It ...

Question: Why stem cells from cord blood transplantation is more preferable then transplantation of stem cells from bone marrow?
Answer: Cord blood is prized because it"s a rich source of stem cells (the building blocks of the blood and immune system). Stem cells have the ability ...