While recent advances in cord blood technology have made cord blood transplants an increasingly viable option for many individuals, marrow transplants were long the standard recommended medical procedure for stem cell transplants. While a bone marrow transplant...

A stem cell transplant is the process in which healthy stem cells are injected into the body to replace damaged or diseased cells. Stem cells are cells from which other cells in the body are created....

Here in our section devoted to stem cell transplants, you will get all of the information you need to understand the benefits of stem cell transplants over bone marrow transplants.  You will also learn...

Maybe you’ve heard friends talking about it. Perhaps you’ve seen some flyers in your doctor’s office. You might have even heard it mentioned on the news. But despite all these murmurings, you still aren’t...

Stem cell research has shown that stem cells can play an integral role in the treatment and prevention of a variety of conditions. One such condition that stem cells can help to both prevent...

Cord blood is the blood that's found in a newborn baby's umbilical cord after birth. Hospitals discard it unless they're told otherwise by the parents. Cord blood is a highly valuable source of a...

Stem cell research is continuously expanding, representing a relatively new field of medical technology. Nonetheless, one of the earliest applications of stem cell transplants for the treatment of diseases has been in patients with leukemia. Indeed, stem cell transplants...

Cord blood stem cell research is a science that has been gaining a lot of attention in recent years. Since the 1980s, the use of stem cells as a treatment for life threatening diseases...