The cord blood bag being weighed “VHB undertakes to process and store all collections within 24 hours and usually the time between collection and processing is significantly less than that ...

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, ...

In 2013, Canadian Blood Services opened its Cord Blood Bank. Since then it has expanded and more than 14,000 donations have been collected from five hospitals – three in Ontario, one in Edmonton ...

When you are preparing to welcome a baby, your to-do list is already packed; hospital bags, birth plans, baby names, etc. But one thing many parents don’t hear enough about is cord blood banking.

SINGAPORE: When first-time mum Grace Tan was pregnant with her daughter two years ago, cord blood banks' staff often came up to her at baby fairs, armed with attractive goody bags and freebies.

Cord Blood Awareness Month: Cord blood banking involves collecting and storing stem cell-rich blood from a newborn's umbilical cord for potential medical treatments, offering both private storage ...

The blood is then transferred to a specially prepared bag and sent to the designated cord blood bank for storage. The decision to save cord blood is highly personal.

StemCord splits a cord blood unit into two bags and stores them at two different locations. “The storage bags, the racks (for holding the bags), the sizes are all different.

Canadian cord-blood procedure passes key milestone in cancer trial Ivan Semeniuk Science Reporter Published June 26, 2018 Updated June 28, 2018 ...

A lab worker reaches into a dewar at the Cord Blood Registry offices in Tucson on Nov. 21, 2006. Health Canada has issued a warning about umbilical cord blood stored at a facility in Edmonton.