Planning to have a kid? Have you considered prenatal care yet? If you want to begin a new chapter of your life as a parent, just wait for a moment and think! Are you completely ready to have a baby, both mentally, and physically? Prenatal care will help you reach there. It should be started […]
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Pregnant Mom’s Guide to the Zika Virus Risk & Cord Blood Banking
Novel Stem-Cell Procedure Saves Boy’s Leg
Stem cells have opened so many gateways to personalized medicine that no one could ever imagine a few years back. Not only the traditional transplants, with stem cells, medical practitioners are now able to treat many rare conditions. Thanks to the researchers and their novel techniques, involving stem cells. This is a story of Javier […]
Know the Common Signs of Baby Teething
I still remember those sleepless nights when my six month old was teething. This was my first experience as a mum and when my little girl was cranky and irritated, especially at night, I was completely at a loss of how to soothe her. Thankfully, my trusted paediatrician and the all-time source of information ‘the […]
Glowing Stem Cells Help Scientists Understand How Cells Work
It’s tough to see the underlying problems with naked eyes when everything is going on smoothly. As soon as something goes wrong, we notice it, no matter how old the issue has been there. A human body is no different. Scientists are only able to study the cells, once they start acting weird. But the […]
Fetal Cells, Like Cord Blood and Cord Tissue Stem Cells, Wield Influence Long After Baby is Born
More and more parents are now considering cord blood banking for the simple reason that it has the potential to treat many diseases and conditions even after decades of birth. And not only the child, one cord blood unit can secure entire family’s future and how! We all know that the umbilical cord ties a […]
A Single Protein Can Boost Stem Cell Regeneration
Would you believe if we told you that stem cell regeneration can be boosted with a single protein? Wondering about the implications? It means you can recover from injuries faster. CIRM-funded scientists from the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center confirmed that hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which are responsible for generating cells in the blood […]
Still Unsure How Cord Blood Banking Works?
Cord blood is the richest source of stem cells and is derived from the blood of a new born baby’s umbilical cord. Stem cells are used in various clinical processes these days. Once collected and preserved, the cord blood stem cells have the healing power to treat many diseases by growing new tissues, blood vessels […]
Stem Cells Have a Neat Trick to Prevent Tissue Scarring
Aging is a natural process that no one can deny. But how about a treatment that will not only keep your muscles flexible during the normal aging process, but also treat various muscle wasting diseases? Well, this is no more a mere concept. The Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have discovered that stem cells, […]
Measuring Depression With Non-invasive Imaging of New Brain Cells
Modern medical science has proved many old notions wrong. Our belief that the adult brain cannot grow new neurons, is one of them. Researchers now have proved that the stem cells, present in our brains can generate new neurons and the use of Prozac or any other anti-depressant drug may help in neurogenesis (the growth […]