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What is Cord Blood?
Cord blood is the blood taken from the umbilical cord that contains stem cells.
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What Happens to Cord Blood?
After the cord blood is stored for possible future use. It is placed in a vial that contains a special solution in it to prevent the cells from getting “freezer burn” and the temperature of the vial is gradually lowered until it is ready to be put into liquid nitrogen, and then it is kept that way, cryogenically frozen. While studies are still being done, many believe that cord blood, if stored properly has no expiration date.

What are the Uses of Cord Blood?
The main advantage of storing cord blood is to keep it handy for the person it came from and their family. If the owner or someone in the family should have or develop a heart condition that can be treated by using the cells then the family simply uses the cord blood to help. Also it can possibly be used to treat Alzheimer's disease, Diabetes, heart and liver disease, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury and stroke victims.

Then why not Just Use Cord Blood?
Cord blood would not be nearly as useful to the field of medicine as stem cells for two reasons. The first is that it is mainly beneficial to the owner or their family, and the second is that it does not hold nearly as much possibilities as stem cells, i.e. it couldn't be used to find a cure or treatment for Parkinson Disease. It's main use would be to treat conditions involving the heart.

Is bone marrow transplantation a form of stem cell therapy?
The use of bone marrow transplants to fight against leukemia is the most well known form of stem cell therapy. The process involves injecting donor blood marrow into people's blood streams. If successful, the stem cells within the marrow will migrate into the patient's bone marrow and produce healthy new eukocytes (white blood cells).

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