Cord blood banking has a number of health benefits to both the children and their parents. Let’s learn about cord blood banking. What it is exactly? Cord blood banking is a process of collecting and storing the baby’s umbilical cord blood at the time of birth. The umbilical cord blood has stem cells inside them, […]
Pregnancy is an amazing feeling for a woman. This phase starts from the fertilization of a sperm and an ovum throughout the process of development of the baby. Most of the women narrates that feeling of becoming pregnant is very extraordinary. They seem to have higher levels of energy; their hair seems shining and their […]
Aplastic anaemia is a rare form of anaemia in which the amount of red blood cells reduces in the bone marrow. It stops the blood cell production and initiates fatigue that can further lead to various kinds of infections and excess amount of bleeding. This can happen at any age and at any time. So, […]
Umbilical cord was at first discovered in 1974, as the main source of hematopoietic stem cells as well as the progenitor cells. The first transplantation of the umbilical cord was done in 1988 for the treatment Fanconi Anemia in France. Earlier the tissues of the umbilical cord were considered as a waste but in the […]
Cord blood is the blood that is found in the umbilical cord of the baby. The umbilical cord helps to create a connection between the mother and the child for passing various types of nutrients from the mother to the baby. In the past, the umbilical cord was thrown away because it was treated as a […]