When you’re pregnant, you may be considering what you can do with the placenta and umbilical cord of your baby after birth. You might have heard of delayed cord clamping or even optimal cord clamping as well as the possibility of keeping, donating and even storing your placenta. You may also be aware of the potential to store the leftover blood from your baby’s umbilical cord, rich in stem cells, which is known as cord blood banking.

A new Phase 1a open-label single-centre study is underway to assess the safety of administering DUOC-01 cells to adult patients with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (PPMS). Cellular therapies like the one are always being worked on, and stem cell treatments are advancing and likely to feature quite a bit in future medicine.

Alzheimer, regrettably, is a well-known disease. Charities and organisations all over the world want to educate people on what it is, how to identify it and ways we can support both the individuals affected and their families.

Enter World Alzheimer’s Day. Annually on the 21 September volunteers and companies around the world host events to raise awareness of the disease and raise money for charities.

Baby stem cell storage may be a service you already know a huge amount about, or perhaps you are just starting out on your fact-finding journey. If you have already done your research, you may worry that what you have been reading could be fraught with misconceptions. There is no shortage of misinformation about what stem cell storage is and how it works.

Stem cells. We hear about them all the time. Seems like there is always something new about stem cells and how truly amazing they can be, and this blog is here to prove it.

If you want to find out about how stem cells helped treat a young girl’s brain injury, keep reading.

There are always new studies being conducted to understand the potential therapeutic uses of stem cells. In this blog, we will be exploring a particular set of experiments conducted by two recognised experts in cloning and stem cell therapy, Frank McKeon and Wa Xian.

Finding out sooner rather than later if your baby might be lactose intolerant or might have an AAT deficiency could be a game-changer.

Alongside the heel prick test which already gives you great information about your baby’s health, BabyInsight is a service offered by Cells4Life that will test your baby’s pre-disposition to 5 different but manageable conditions and sensitivities.

We all want to know our baby is happy and healthy. Hospitals already offer the blood spot or “heel prick” test that lets you know if your baby has 1 of 9 health conditions. These health conditions include cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, congenital hypothyroidism, phenylketonuria and 4 other serious but treatable conditions.

Having a baby costs money. Much like anything in the world, there are expenses involved with keeping your baby clothed, fed, happy and healthy. It is 100% worth it but, sometimes people don’t realise how much you will spend within a year of having a baby let alone raising them to 18.

Your life, and that of your partner, is going to change for ever. In a good way, of course.

Therefore, announcing the birth is going to be high up on your agenda, no doubt. After all, giving birth deserves some recognition!