The umbilical cord delivers vital nutrients from your body to your baby, and ferries away the waste your baby produces. It ...

Cord blood is the blood in your baby's umbilical cord and your placenta. It houses potentially lifesaving cells called stem ...

Umbilical cord blood gas casebook: interpreting umbilical cord blood gases, Part V. J Perinatol 1999;19:466–467. Article CAS Google Scholar Pomerance JJ .

Umbilical cord blood (UCB) has been increasingly used as a source of hematopoietic stem cells in transplantation. 6, 7, 8 One of the major obstacles to i.v. UCB transplantation is the relatively ...

Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET on October 17, 2022. In the fall of 1988, Matthew Farrow, a 5-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder, received the world’s first transplant of umbilical-cord blood from ...

After the cord is cut, you will see a gelatinous stump with three small blood vessels in the middle. Since there is no longer a blood supply to nourish it, the umbilical cord stump will begin to ...

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 ...

Umbilical cord blood contains proteins that could help clinicians identify infants that are at risk of premature birth, ... There were higher levels of proteins that are found in the extracellular ...

It can be difficult to decide whether to expedite birth when a woman in the final stage of pregnancy perceives fewer fetal ...

On the Cause of the Spiral Direction of the Umbilical Vessels, and the Convolutions of the Cord in the Human Foetus. By John Simpson, Esq, F H S C., L H.C.P., Surgeon, Royal Na. val Hospital, Haslar.

Interest in cord blood began in 1988, when a 5-year-old boy suffering a rare genetic disease was successfully treated with cord blood from his newborn sister. This extraordinary result gave birth ...