Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have discovered a new population of cells in human umbilical cord blood that have properties of primitive stem cells. Researchers at the ...

Human primitive spinal cord cells delayed symptoms and paralysis by a week when implanted in the spinal cord of rats destined to develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's ...

The cushioning material or matrix within the umbilical cord known as Wharton's jelly is a rich and readily available source of primitive stem cells, according to findings by a research team at Kansas ...

Phase I study of CAL-101, an isoform-selective inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3‐kinase P110d, in patients with previously treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from ...

Cord blood is obtained after the umbilical cord has been cut. The blood is frozen and can be stored in cord blood banks either privately or be donated to public cord blood banks. Cord blood is a much ...

A way of dramatically multiplying the number of primitive stem cells in samples of human umbilical cord blood has been developed by a US team. Until now the stem cells from one cord have only been ...