World Cord Blood Day

World Cord Blood Day is celebrated on November 15. Umbilical cord blood is a unique biomaterial whose cellular composition is not similar to the blood of an adult, but resembles bone marrow. Therefore, umbilical cord blood can be used as an analogue of bone marrow in...
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Placenta for the treatment and rehabilitation of the injured soldiers

In the conditions of the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, for the rehabilitation of the wounded soldiers after mine-explosive injuries, the scientists of the Institute of Cell Therapy have developed a method of wound treatment using the amniotic membrane, which is obtained from the placenta. The...
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Cord Blood Association extended ICT membership

Cord Blood Association (CBA) is a main international non-profit organization that brings together accredited public and private cord blood banks and industry professionals to promote the use of cord blood stem cells and perinatal tissues (umbilical cord, placenta) in the treatment of diseases and the development of...
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Stem cells in the treatment of COVID-19

For a year now, the whole world has been battling the pandemic of the previously unknown acute respiratory disease COVID-19. Today, almost 100,000,000 people in the world are infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, of which more than 50,000,000 have recovered and more than 2,000,000 have died.
Glucocorticoids, anticoagulants, antibiotics, and anticytokine drugs are used in international...
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Umbilical Cord Blood in Numbers

  1. 50-120 ml - the average volume of umbilical cord blood that can be collected after childbirth.
  2. 28 years - the maximum period of storage of frozen umbilical cord blood to date, after which it is known that thawed cells are suitable...
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A new method of cord blood application

Since the first use of umbilical cord blood stem cells in 1988, more than 35,000 transplants of this valuable biological material have been performed worldwide. The range of diseases in which umbilical cord blood stem cells are used is constantly...
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Cell Therapy of COVID-19

COVID-19 is the largest pandemic in modern history, the number of infected persons in the world already reaches about 5 million people, and the number of deaths reaches 300,000 and this is in 5 months period.
There is no effective treatment for COVID-19, but cell...
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