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Banking your baby’s cord blood is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. These precious cells can be collected only at birth.  More than 70 diseases and disorders are currently being treated with stem cells. Umbilical cord blood stem cells alone are already being used in place of bone marrow transplants to treat more than 40 different debilitating and life-threatening conditions (link to current therapies). By saving your child’s cord blood, you are giving your child the opportunity to benefit medically from many of the already proven life saving procedures.  More importantly, you are putting your children in a new generation of children who may be able to benefit from the potential of stem cells in the future. See just some of the new studies and promising research using cord blood and adult stem cells to treat many diseases such as Type 1 diabetes (link to promising research).  Storing stem cells is like taking out an insurance policy to potentially insure the health of your family in the years to come.  Hopefully, you will never need to use your child’s cord blood stem cells, but if the need arises, you can rest assured that they are readily available.

Promising Stem Cell Research

Juvenile Type 1 Diabetes

University of Florida is currently conducting research on the potential for the use of cord blood stem cells in regenerating insulin production in juvenile diabetes patients.

http://news.ufl.edu/2007/06/25/cord-blood/

Heart Disease

Baxter is continuing its Phase II adult stem cell therapy trial designed to investigate the success of CD34+ stem cells to improve symptoms and clinical outcomes in patients with chronic myocardial ischemia (CMI), a severe form of coronary artery disease.

http://www.baxter.com/about_baxter/news_room/news_releases/2006/03-07-06-stem_cell_trial.html

Brain Damage

Duke University is a pioneer in research and trials using cord blood to improve clinical outcomes of brain injury including brain injury at birth and cerebral palsy.

http://hextell-today.gpvideo.com/TODAY-3.11.2008.wmv

Cochlear Repair

According to an Italian research team publishing their findings in Cell Transplantation (17:6), hearing loss due to cochlear damage may be repaired by transplantation of human umbilical cord hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) since they show that a small number migrated to the damaged cochlea and repaired sensory hair cells and neurons.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/120350.php