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Stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body. Serving as a sort of repair system for the body, they can divide to replenish other cells. When a stem cell divides, each new cell has the potential to either remain a stem cell or become another type of cell with a more specialized function, such as a muscle cell, a red blood cell, a brain cell, a cardiac tissue cell, etc.
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The umbilical cord blood is a very good and safe source of Hematopoietic Stem Cell (HSC).
When a family decides to bank their babies umbilical cord blood, they do that on the awareness of the potentially life-saving benefit afforded by HSC cells contained in cord blood, which, in the past, were discarded as if it were “waste”. |
Research on HSC is advancing knowledge about how an organism develops from a single cell and how healthy cells replace damaged cells in adult organisms. This promising area of science is also leading scientists to investigate the possibility of cell-based therapies to treat disease, which is often referred to as regenerative medicine.
There has been growing scientific evidence that the younger the stem cell is the most likely to be of therapeutic better value. Thus, many families have decided to store stem cells collected from their babies umbilical cord at birth – a very young non-embryonic stem cell.
As well pointed out at The National Institutes of Health (NIH) resource for stem cell research there is still a lot to be learned about stem cell therapeutic potentials.
You can find additional information at NIH Stem Cell Research Center click here.
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