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What Is Umbilical Cord Blood Banking?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/article>\n

Umbilical cord blood banking refers to an effective and economically sustainable system for the collection<\/a> and storage of cord blood for medical uses<\/a>. Advantages of umbilical cord blood banking over bone-marrow transplant have increased the demand of cord blood units. In this regard, a large number of cord blood units are stored in the public<\/a> and private<\/a> umbilical cord blood banking companies. According to an estimate, more than 160 public and 215 private cord blood banks<\/a> are working round the globe.<\/p>\n

Find in this article<\/a> our cord blood banking reviews<\/a>. Furthermore, you have this article<\/a> about best cord blood banks<\/a>, so you can note which features are required in an umbilical cord blood banking company to rank among the best.<\/p>\n

Umbilical cord is the ribbon-like tissue that connects the fetus to the placenta lying in the maternal womb. During pregnancy, the umbilical cord develops from the remnants of yolk sac and allantois by the fifth week of fetal development. It offers nutrients and oxygen carried in blood from mother to the fetus.<\/p>\n

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Umbilical cord blood refers to the blood contained in the umbilical cord<\/a> and placenta immediately after delivery. It is a plentiful reservoir of stem cells<\/a>, which can grow to different cell lines. Stem cells are unspecialized cells, which develop into all the cells and tissues of the body. Years before, the umbilical cord blood was considered as a waste product of pregnancy. Now a days, it is used to extract stem cells<\/a> for various medical conditions requiring haematopoietic or non- haematopoietic stem cell transplant. And this is one of the main reasons why this process became so important.<\/p>\n

Umbilical cord blood transplantation is an acceptable alternative curative stem cell therapy<\/a> in many medical conditions such as leukemia, aplastic anemia, neuroblastoma and many others. More than 35000 UCB transplants have been carried out worldwide with successful results from units subject to storage in these institutions.<\/p>\n

Usually, bone marrow stem cells are used to replace faulty bone-marrow stems cells in the patients with cancers requiring a haematopoietic transplant. However, cord blood transplant is a newer stem-cell therapy<\/a> with various advantages over bone-marrow stem cell transplant such as:<\/p>\n