Cord blood is the blood in your baby's umbilical cord and your placenta. It houses potentially lifesaving cells called stem cells, which can develop into mature blood cells, including red blood cells, ...

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

Single-artery umbilical cord problems only happen in around 1% of pregnancies, although the risk increases to 5% for twin pregnancies. A lack of one vessel is called a two-vessel cord. This ...

Human umbilical cord blood–derived mesenchymal stem cell transplantation attenuates severe brain injury by permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion in newborn rats ...

The Umbilical Vessel Catheters Market (UVCs) are medical devices used in neonatal care to provide access to the circulatory system of newborns through the umbilical vessels. The umbilical cord, which ...

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

Velamentous cord insertion can cause vasa previa, which means the unprotected blood vessels lie between the baby and the mother's birth canal. When labor begins, the blood vessels may break ...

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 ...

Banking a baby’s umbilical cord blood was once seen as a reasonable way to protect their future health, ... Complex blood vessel nets could be 3D printed for artificial organs. News.

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 ...