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A team at Duke may have landed on a new application for umbilical cord blood—to improve motor skills in children with cerebral palsy. In a phase 2 trial involving 63 children, Joanne Kurtzberg and her team gave patients an infusion of their own cord blood that had...

Georgina Russell from Preston, near Manchester in the UK, was four months pregnant when she received the terrible news that her older brother, Ashley, had a rare, slow-growing form of the brain tumour, glioblastoma. Determined to help her brother in any way possible,...

Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation has set up two web pages which enable the public to search for currently recruiting clinical trials that use either cord blood or cord tissue. By the numbers, our search portals currently list 114 recruiting cord blood trials...

Elham, a 12-year-old girl from Isfahan, Iran, was diagnosed with the ALL form of leukaemia in 2014. Since then she underwent chemotherapy three times as the main treatment method, but it turned out to be all in vain. She was cured by a stem cell transplant from her...

The last place you would think to look for a life-saving treatment for cancer would be the trash. But each year it's estimated that 90% to 95% of umbilical cord blood ends up in the garbage. Doctors told Chris that, to beat cancer, he needed a bone marrow transplant....

Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia have developed a new single injection stem cell treatment which may be a "cure" for asthma and allergies to bees, peanuts, seafood and other allergens which activate an immune response and cause severe...

My husband and I were at a Baby Show recently and walked past a stem cell storage bank display on our way to the popular pram and cot displays. At the time, we didn't really stop to think about it, however we did make a mental note to have a look into stem cells later...

Where did you store your children's stem cells? I’m fairly certain that the vast majority of readers were not asked this question when they became parents. For now, stem cell treatments (hematopoietic cells, to be precise) are most likely to be used in the battle...

A clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a stem cell product injected directly into the brain to treat chronic motor deficits from ischemic stroke has begun at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston...