If you are interested in storing your child’s cord blood, it’s important that you understand how each stage of cord blood banking works. The processing stage is particularly important as it can affect how many viable stem cells are collected from your child’s cord...

A few years ago, saving the umbilical cord blood at birth is the only option available for expecting parents when it comes to newborn stem cell banking. At Cells4Life, we can also save a piece of the umbilical cord (cord tissue), the placental cells, as well as the...

Welcome to our third and final article on Cord Blood Banking 101 series! On the first part, we talked about the discovery of cord blood use in medicine and what diseases can be treated. While on the second part, we talked about the benefits of cord tissue, why...

Welcome to the second article on our Cord Blood Banking 101 series! On the first part, we talked about the history of cord blood, it’s benefits and medical conditions that can be treated. Click here if you want to read it again. In this article, we will talk...

There is a vast amount of information available online about saving the umbilical cord blood at birth, commonly known as cord blood banking – so much that it can be confusing for expecting parents who have only heard about the concept for the first-time. Although cord...