Happy Mother’s Day, CBR Moms! We hand it to you for having taken the extra step to protect your family’s health by banking your newborn’s cord blood stem cells. You’ve prepared for your family’s future before your little one has even arrived!

In honor of Mother...

One smart way to learn about cord blood banking is from a parent who has recently explored the options for his or her newborn. Nancy Eways, mother of three, is just that person. She’s been a CBR employee for five years, and when she got pregnant with her first child about three years ago, she knew CBR was the company to bank her newborn’s cord blood stem cells. As a highly trained CBR cord blood education...

A study published in the November 2011 issue of Critical Care Medicine demonstrated that

Dr. Mary Laughlin is Chief of the Stem Cell Transplant Program and Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia. Her work in cellular therapy is known internationally.

CBR: What sparked your interest in

DISCLAIMER:
Banking newborn stem cells does not guarantee that the cells will provide a cure or be applicable for
every situation. Use will be determined by the treating physician who will consider if the stem cells are
applicable...

Joani and Chad Harshman’s second son, Maxwell, was born with craniostenosis, a condition which occurs when one or more of the openings in an infant's skull closes too soon. This premature closing of areas meant that as Max’s brain grew, there would not be enough room to expand and allow for normal growth—causing increased pressure on the brain. Max had undergone...

CBR recently achieved a major milestone: since opening our doors, we’ve collected, processed and stored cord blood and/or cord tissue for more than 400,000 children. To put the number into perspective – it’s equivalent to the population of a city the size of Miami, living safely within our cryogenic...

“We store every single sample as though it was my grandchild’s.”

-Tom Moore, CEO and co-founder of CBR

Since our father-daughter team, Tom Moore and Wendy Grant, co-founded

We’re thrilled to unveil CBR’s fresh, new website and tagline, “Healthy Futures Born Here”. This window into CBR from the outside better reflects what’s inside CBR:  the core values that drive us to be a leader in the industry.  At CBR, we believe that every newborn deserves a healthy future, and as the...

For years, CBR has provided free banking services to families with a pre-existing medical need. Now, we’re excited to expand public awareness of our programs nationwide.

The initiative is designed to ensure that a newborn’s stem cells are processed and stored at no cost in cases of identified medical...

CBR® (Cord Blood Registry®) is not just the largest, most experienced stem cell bank – we’re dedicated to connecting clients with clinical trials evaluating the regenerative...

Stephen and Ellen Howell are very special CBR clients, not just because they banked with CBR five times, but those five were all born on the same day.  That’s right, this Houston family welcomed quintuplets into the world three years ago. ...

Approximately half of obstetricians report they have insufficient knowledge of umbilical cord blood banking to effectively answer patients’ questions about cord blood donation or family banking and desire more information...

Your baby’s newborn stem cells have arrived safely at CBR’s laboratory. Now what? How are the stem cells stored? How do you know they’ll be taken care of? What keeps CBR at the forefront of the industry? For answers, we turned to

While we’ve blogged about research using umbilical cord blood stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries in the past (see here and