With two young, healthy children—a boy and a girl—Kelly and Corey thought their family was complete. Then they learned they were expecting. While Kelly had considered cord blood banking for her older two children, for this pregnancy, she decided to...

Click Image to Hear Podcast Did you know that the rate of premature birth has never been higher? And doctors, scientists, researchers and loving parents and families simply don’t understand what is going wrong. Today, medical advances give even the...

Click the image above to listen to the Podcast It’s nearly impossible to understand how Traci and Kevin felt when they learned that their son, Nicholas, only 2 ½ years old, was diagnosed with leukemia. Doctors told Traci and Kevin that the best...

Every time a cord blood unit leaves ViaCord for use – it’s a meaningful event. It represents the hope and potential of providing treatment for a family’s loved one. Recently, ViaCord marked the release of the 150th unit for therapeutic use....

This month, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies are reporting that umbilical cord blood can be used to make induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS)—that are immunologically immature with properties similar to human embryonic stem...