What is Cord Blood?
http://www.nationalstemcellfoundation.org/what-are-stem-cells/
http://stemcells.nih.gov/sites/default/files/SCprimer2009.pdf
Your baby's Cord Blood is a 100% match to him/herself
http://www.cordbloodaware.org/why-bank-cord-blood/
Mesenchymal Stem Cells
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3712145/
Cord Blood Clinical Trials
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Prevention and Treatment of Prematurity Complications In Preterm Neonates
Lymphoid Hematological Malignancies (UCALL)
Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury (Chronic TBI)
Cord Tissue Clinical Trials
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD)
Eczema
Graft-versus-host Disease (DvHD)
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01765634?term=mesenchymal+stem+cells&rank=21
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01765660?term=mesenchymal+stem+cells&rank=22
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Hypo plastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
Kidney Plus Stem Cell Transplant
Lung Cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4208500/
https://www.cirm.ca.gov/our-progress/awards/stem-cells-lung-cancer
Multiple Sclerosis
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02587715?term=cord+tissue&rank=3
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02034188?term=cord+tissue&rank=5
Wounds, Burns, Ulcers
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02166294?term=cord+tissue&rank=29
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02412046?term=cord+tissue&rank=31
Storing Cord Blood is Important for Ethnic Minorities
https://www.nationalcordbloodprogram.org/cord-blood-101/cord-blood-faqs/
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