● Cord blood (short for umbilical cord blood) is the blood that remains in the umbilical cord and placenta post-delivery.
● It contains special cells called hematopoietic stem cells that can be used to treat some types of diseases.
● Cord blood banking is the process of collecting the cord blood and extracting and cryogenically freezing its stem cells and other cells of the immune system for potential future medical use.
● They can treat cancer, blood diseases like anemia, and some immune system disorders, which disrupt your body’s ability to defend itself.
● The fluid is easy to collect and has 10 times more stem cells than those collected from bone marrow.
● Stem cells from cord blood rarely carry any infectious diseases and are half as likely to be rejected as adult stem cells.
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