DNA changes in umbilical cord blood may help predict which children are at higher risk for future health issues like diabetes ...

The umbilical cord may become a crystal ball of sorts, helping doctors predict the future of children at risk for long-term ...

In a systematic review by Van Rheenen and Brabin, [8] delayed cord clamping was defined as waiting until the umbilical cord had ... waiting until there is no pulse left at all or waiting for ...

Doctors might be able to predict a newborn's long-term health outlook, by analyzing their umbilical cord blood, a new study ...

Consider the poignant story of your baby's umbilical cord. For nine months it faithfully served as your baby's lifeline. It provided him with oxygen, with nutrients, with life itself. Now ...

They say every cloud has a silver lining and I have to agree: the loss of a car was a small price to pay for the recovery of the ancestral umbilical cord. The problem with a 100-year-old umbilical ...

After the baby has been delivered, the umbilical cord is clamped and about 2 to 3 ounces of the blood it contains are collected. The blood is then transferred to a specially prepared bag and sent ...

Cord blood transplants can help save the lives of patients with leukemia as well as other blood cancers and genetic diseases. Found in the placenta and the umbilical cords of newborns, cord blood stem ...