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The power of parents’ love
While it is well understood parents often put their own relationship to the side to meet their children’s needs, it turns out that might not be the best approach. Using unique data from Nepal, researchers from the University of Michigan and McGill University in Quebec has found the affection between parents shapes their children’s…
Imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery
A six month old baby is smarter than you might think and can understand when adults imitate them. A new study from Lund University in Sweden has found six month old infants perceive imitators as more friendly. The babies in the study looked and smiled longer at an adult who imitated them as…
Blood test could diagnose baby brain damage just hours after birth
Scientists in London have developed a blood test which can detect which babies deprived of oxygen at birth are at risk of serious disabilities. The Imperial College team working with groups in India, Italy and the USA say the prototype test looks for certain genes being switched on and off that are linked to long…
New cord blood trial for spinal injury
New cord blood trial for spinal injury A clinical trial, using cord blood, lithium and physical therapy to treat the most severe forms of spinal cord injury has been given the green light from the FDA. The experimental treatment does not cure paralysis but is the first to help people with complete chronic spinal…
Cord blood joins the fight against Covid-19
Researchers are piloting the use of an umbilical cord blood therapy to help Covid patients battling pneumonia. The trial team at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne is currently working with confirmed Covid patients who have moderate to severe pneumonia, until the end of the year. They are trying to find out if the cord blood…
Autistic youngsters helped by cord blood
We have the inside scoop from Duke University about a trial using cord blood infusions to improve the lives of very young autistic children. The Duke study wanted to find out if cord blood infusions were able to improve cognitive abilities in the children. Those tested received two infusions of cord blood in a six…
What does a pandemic smell like?
Apparently Covid-19 has a particular odour and sniffer dogs are being worked with in a number of trials around the world, showing huge early promise in sniffing out people with the virus. Germany is just one of the countries trialling sniffer dogs, the idea being dogs can be trained to pick up Covid…
Why save your baby’s cord blood with CordBank
Why Buyanna saved her baby’s cord blood… “We decided to store our daughter’s cord blood as an insurance policy against the unexpected in life, and who knows it might even help us with science developing further!” Learn why saving your baby’s cord blood could save your baby’s life https://bit.ly/2VKclwu
Sibling cord blood to the rescue
Sibling cord blood to the rescue Although Leyla’s brain injury was diagnosed before she was born, no-one told her parents about cord blood banking. But when her baby sister Ela was born in 2018, they not only collected her cord blood but also enrolled in a new trial at Duke University Medical Centre –…
CordBank stores your baby’s cord blood in Auckland, New Zealand
Behind the scenes at the CordBank lab CordBank stores your baby’s cord blood in Auckland, New Zealand. We’re licensed by the New Zealand Ministry of Health and operate under the most stringent level of quality applied to cord blood banks globally. To maintain security, our lab is a closed site – which means we can’t…