Cord Blood Blog

M.A.Z.E. cord blood bank recently posted an interesting case study on a patient whose parents banked his cord blood with M.A.Z.E.  The baby was born with cerebral palsy and his cord blood was used as treatment. Read the cord blood case study.

When a couple banks their infant’s cord blood, they usually sign a contract that either includes 20 years of cord blood storage or guarantees the annual storage fee will not change for a set number of years.  Since the technology for cord blood expansion is moving rapidly, most people expect to store their infant’s cord …

I recently read an article about the U.S. military looking to cord blood to provide blood transplants to soldiers in the field.  The military recently contracted with Arteriocyte to fund research into a machine that will take cord blood stem cells, expand them and convert them to red blood cells. The military expects these red …

Following is an announcement that was recently sent out by M.A.Z.E. regarding one of our families. Child Treated with Cord Blood in Experimental Study While pregnant, Danielle and John Centrello decided to bank their baby’s cord blood with M.A.Z.E. Cord Blood Laboratories in Purchase, NY. Not only was M.A.Z.E. close to home, but it offered …

When parents are registering for cord blood banking, they are required to provide quite a bit of health information to the cord blood bank.  Many parents wonder what happens to this information, once it is submitted to the bank. While I can’t answer this for all banks, I can answer it for M.A.Z.E.  When parents …

M.A.Z.E. Cord Blood Laboratories has introduced a quiz where parents can test their knowledge about cord blood banking.  You can take the quiz, get your score and even post your score on your blog or Web page.  Test your knowledge with the cord blood quiz. Learn more about cord blood banking.

When parents are considering banking their cord blood, they often ask if there is a charge to retrieve the cord blood.  There should be no cost to retrieve the cord blood.  What a cord blood bank might charge you for is shipping of the sample.  Since the sample needs to be shipped frozen, you will …

Umbilical cord blood stem cells may one day be used to build heart valves for children born with heart defects.  Ralf Sodian of University Hospital Munich, who led the study, presented at the American Heart Association annual meeting, that these valves would grow with the child, eliminating the need for ongoing surgical intervention to replace …

Many parents who are considering banking their infant’s cord blood, often wonder how long the cord blood can be saved before it starts to deteriorate.  Banking cord blood is a new enough procedure that scientists don’t have an answer to that question yet. The data for cord blood involves specimens that have been frozen for …