The aims of this study were to investigate the values of SP-D in umbilical cord blood and capillary blood of premature infants and to relate the levels to perinatal conditions. A total of 254 ...

High molecular weight (HMW) and total adiponectin levels from 141 cord blood samples and plasma blood samples from 40 3-y-old children were analyzed. Associations between adiponectin levels in ...

Expectant parents have a number of big financial decisions to make. Increasingly among them, what to do with baby's cord blood. Cord blood is a hot commodity. Taken from a newborn's umbilical cord ...

Many parents regard her as a role model. That’s why I found it disappointing to learn that Teigen is a spokesperson for the Cord Blood Registry, which advocates for the collection of umbilical ...

An umbilical cord blood transplant, Chris and his doctors agreed, was his best hope. Like bone marrow, cord blood is unusually rich in hematopoietic stem cells – which can give rise to every ...

Cord banking entails storing the blood from the umbilical cord so it can be used later to treat diseases, with many storage companies likening it to a “biological insurance policy” — just in ...

Normally following the birth of a baby, the placenta and cord blood are discarded, according to routine hospital practice The number of people paying thousands of pounds to freeze parts of their ...

Normally following the birth of a baby, the placenta and cord blood are discarded, according to routine hospital practice The number of people paying thousands of pounds to freeze parts of their ...

If it weren't for a stem cell transplant — less than half a cup of blood from a stranger's umbilical cord — four-year-old Tristan Ford would almost certainly have died as an infant ...