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Cord Blood Importance
Studies for cord blood have found a lot of illness that may cure using umbilical cord blood, especially hematopoietic and genetic disorders. Cord blood is containing stem cells that may repair or replace damage organ. Stem cells are biological cells that can divide and differentiate into different type of cells. These are very smart cells that can find the damage organ and repair it.
Stem cells that can work properly for healing process are stem cells that come from the patient himself. If patient use stem cells from different person, the probability of the stem cells matching with patient tissue is very low. Until now, stem cells are commonly take from umbilical cord blood, the other method for creating stem cells from adult cells is still under research. Umbilical cord is only there after the baby born. And one common method to keep the cord blood safe for further use is keep it on cord blood banks.
We are never known what will happen to our baby. Some genetic disorders appear after the baby grows and when the time come most parents can find the cure, because the only cure is from baby stem cells. If you keep your baby cord blood at cord blood bank, you can use it in case something bad happen to your baby health.