After the cord is cut, you will see a gelatinous stump with three small blood vessels in the middle. Since there is no longer a blood supply to nourish it, the umbilical cord stump will begin to ...

the umbilical cord inserts into the membranes surrounding the placenta in the uterus. Blood vessels within the cord branch out separately and directly into the placenta – which means they aren't ...

Inside you, there is an amazing network of blood vessels, the tubes that carry blood all around your body. Every part of the body needs oxygen, food and water. The blood vessels are a bit like ...

Since its launch in 2006, our Cord Blood Transplant Program has performed nearly 500 transplants in patients with blood cancer and other diseases, ranging from 1 to 71 years old. Our investigators are ...

Vasculitis is a group of diseases, also known as angiitis, that damage blood vessels by causing inflammation. It can affect any blood vessel anywhere in the body. Vasculitis means inflammation of ...

New research from Weill Cornell Medicine has uncovered a surprising culprit underlying cardiovascular diseases in obesity and diabetes-not the presence of certain fats, but their suppression.

ViaCord offers cord blood and cord tissue stem cell banking for families who wish to save their child’s stem cells for future medical use. ViaCord has been a leader in the cord blood banking ...

The FDA approved Humacyte’s lab-grown blood vessel Symvess despite internal warnings from agency scientists about its safety ...