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2025
Jun 2025 Recent evidence that therapies with cord blood and cord tissue have clear benefit for children with cerebral palsy have finally opened avenues of regenerative medicine that have long been promised by cord blood banks.
Jun 2025 Zara was the first child to receive a cord blood infusion to treat cerebral palsy under compassionate access regulations in Australia.
Jun 2025 Florida has passed a state law which “allows” stem cell therapies that are not approved by the FDA. The law initially allows licensed physicians to use adult stem cells to treat orthopedic issues, chronic pain, and wound healing.
Jun 2025 YES, pregnant mothers and their babies can still benefit from getting the COVID-19 vaccine in 2025, because the scientific evidence for getting vaccinated during pregnancy has not changed.
May 2025 The two companies Hemafund and Pluri have announced an exclusive collaboration to prepare for a radiation emergency in Ukraine. Pluri has a product made from live placenta cells that can protect against radiation poisoning, and Hemafund has a distribution network in Ukraine.
May 2025 The 2.0 version of an operating system for fertility clinics is to centralize the specialized laboratory services. This frees up the local clinics to focus on personalized patient care.
May 2025 Your placenta has a sex! It matches the sex of your baby, because most of the placenta is formed from the fertilized egg early in pregnancy. The sex of your placenta determines how well your baby can manage stress in the womb, with female placenta-baby pairs having better survival skills than males.
Apr 2025 Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis (IPDMA) proves that children with cerebral palsy who receive cord blood cell therapy have significant improvements in gross motor skills between 6 and 12 months later. The best responders are children with CP that are under five years old and who had some ability to walk before the therapy.
Apr 2025 The spring 2025 EBMT meeting held a special session on cord blood, Dr. Vanderson Rocha received the 1st Eliane Gluckman award, and the Cord Blood Association is combining their annual meeting with the AABB meeting.
Apr 2025 There is no consensus in the medical literature as to which placenta position is most common. Plus, the placenta can "migrate". But we do know that, once you have had a C-section, your odds of having placenta previa increase.