For Thousands Tens of thousands of children and adults are diagnosed annually with blood diseases and genetic immune disorders.
Many thousands are unable to find a suitable donor.
For many patients, transplants from cord blood donations can be a possible cure. These patients are right to be hopeful about our research with cord blood. For them, although still an experimental technique, a cord blood transplant could be life-giving. Increasing the availability of cord blood could allow thousands more patients to benefit from this new experimental treatment. Once infused, the new stem cells travel to the bone marrow spaces, where they take up residence and begin to multiply.