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• Healthy Futures, Born Here: Protecting Newborn Futures

  “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 Posted Mar 16, 2012 Tags: cord blood, cord blood banking, Cord Blood Regsitry, CBR, cord tissue

• Animation Illustrates Newborn Stem Cells Effect on Spinal Cord Injury

  While we’ve blogged about research using umbilical cord blood stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries in the past (see here and Posted Jan 26, 2012 Tags: cord blood, stem cells, umbilical cord blood, CBR, clinical trials, spinal cord injury, ScienceandResearch, newborn cord blood stem cells, cord tissue

• Why Bank Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells?

  As families become more educated on umbilical cord banking, they may choose to bank their baby’s cord blood and Posted Jan 19, 2012 Tags: cord blood, stem cells, umbilical cord blood, Cord Blood Regsitry, CBR, clinical trials, InsideCBR, RealPeopleRealStories, cord tissue

• Cord Tissue Basics

  CBR’s Content Scientist for Scientific and Medical Affairs, Kate Brown, Ph.D., joins us today to provide expert answers about cord tissue banking. But first, a question for our readers: did you know CBR was the first bank to offer cord tissue banking to U.S. clients... Posted Dec 16, 2011 Tags: cord blood, family banking, umbilical cord blood, CBR, cord blood stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells, MSCs, ScienceandResearch, InsideCBR, cord tissue, cord tissue stem cells, Kate Brown

• Cord Tissue Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Humans Shows Positive Results

  The first reported human clinical application of umbilical cord tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells(MSCs) was recently published in Transplantation.(1) The study found that the use of cord tissue MSCs was feasible, safe and effective in treating patients with graft versus host disease (GvHD), which is a serious and potentially fatal complication of stem cell... Posted Oct 05, 2011 Tags: cord blood, CBR, stem cell, mesenchymal stem cells, transplantation, ScienceandResearch, GvHD, cord tissue