Choosing to collect your baby’s umbilical cord blood and store it for potential use in the future is a big decision for new parents. The precious stem cells contained in the small sample [...]

This summer, we released our 21st Stem Cell sample for clinical use, which was used at Duke University Hospital, in the United States to treat a young boy with Cerebral Palsy. We have been able [...]

We know that the birth of your baby is one of the most special times in your life and that nurturing your child to give them the best life possible is your priority. Storing their cord blood is [...]

Post Updated 10/05/2019 A new pregnancy is a new beginning. A child that you will nurture and protect to not only ensure they get the best possible start when they enter the world but also to [...]

Your body is full of hormones all rushing around, a lack of sleep has left you frazzled and with a short fuse, the ‘mum’ fog has set in and you’re likely to cry without warning or reason. All [...]

Congratulations you’re having a baby, what an exciting time. Pregnancy can be a busy time for working parents, so we want to make sure you understand your employment rights. Take some [...]

Recently, there has been a great deal of laboratory research and clinical trial work in the field of cell therapy in ophthalmology – that’s the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis [...]

Smart Cells were recently visited by an influencer, model and blogger, Juste Juozapaityte and her partner Mike McKeown who have decided to store their baby’s stem cells with Smart Cells. Juste is [...]

Whatever stage you’re at in your pregnancy, you’ll want to nurture your precious bundle and make sure they get the best possible start in life. This means doing all you can to ensure your baby’s [...]

A new year is a time for new beginnings. If you’re lucky enough to be welcoming a baby into the world in 2019, you’ll want to give them the best possible start in life. Now is the [...]

January marks National Blood Donor month, so we’re happy to tie in with this occasion to support blood donors both in the UK and around the world, as well as helping to encourage those who may [...]

What greater gift could you give your baby this festive season than to be able to safeguard their health both now and for years to come? Banking your child’s stem cells at birth is a [...]

Next week marks World Cord Blood Day 2018, taking place on the 15th November. Last year, we chose to show our support by releasing information and stats on cord blood transplants and their [...]

Banking your baby’s stem cells at birth gives them the best possible chance of overcoming some serious health problems should they arrive prematurely. As highlighted by World Prematurity [...]

Banking your baby’s precious stem cells at birth could be the best investment you ever make. This is especially true when it comes to putting an end to their debilitating eczema or painful [...]

Smart Cells is now featured exclusively on the Mum&Me App. Launched in August 2018, the Mum&Me App aims to provide essential services to expectant parents, through to the birth and early [...]

At Smart Cells, we are often asked about clinical trials that are being undertaken using cord blood or cord tissue stem cells in the treatment of various diseases. Clinical trials are approved [...]

The risks of your child developing a childhood illness such as leukaemia, or a debilitating disease like Parkinson’s in adulthood are relatively low – but unfortunately they still exist. [...]

ADVICE FOR MOTHERS WISHING TO STORE CORD BLOOD AT RISK OF WEST NILE VIRUS SCI has adopted the following policy regarding exposure or possible exposure to West Nile Virus (WNV). Obligatory must [...]

Banking your newborn baby’s umbilical cord blood stem cells today could prove to be a life-saver for your family in the future. Scientists are continuing to gain insight into the use of [...]

The first week of August marks World Breastfeeding Week which aims to educate and inform people around the world about the benefits of breastfeeding as well as support parents. Between 1st and [...]

While today’s children may well live longer than their parents, with chronic age-related disease on the rise, chances are they might not necessarily enjoy a healthy old age. [...]

Stem cells are proving to be a real ally in the battle against multiple sclerosis (MS). Research is revealing how they can help to slow down the effects of the disease, and repair damage that has [...]

Diabetes is the 21st century’s leading health care challenge. If it’s not an issue for you, then it will certainly be an issue for your children. A staggering 31% of all deaths in the UAE [...]

At Smart Cells, we know better than many just what an important job it is that midwives do and how crucial it is to have their unwavering support throughout pregnancy, birth and during post-natal [...]

You may have read about the extraordinary healing properties of stem cell therapy but did you know that it could, at some point in the future, prevent you from going blind, mend fractured bones [...]

Autism is a very well known condition, especially among parents, but there are constantly myths perpetuated around what it is and the effect it has on children. Did you know that there are around [...]

Did you know that you don’t have to be suffering from a chronic, life-threatening condition to benefit from stem cell therapy? I’ve talked in previous articles about the use of stem cells in the [...]

Did you know that there are more than 6000 known rare diseases and 30 million people living with these conditions? A rare disease is defined by the European Union as one which affects less than 1 [...]

According to haematology experts, 40% of the UAE’s population suffer from some form of blood disorder, with blood cancer among the leading causes of premature death. For an increasing [...]

An ageing global population suggests that the world’s health is improving, but there is a catch. With age comes an increase in the incidence of neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and [...]

The days when an elite athlete’s career could be ended prematurely due to injury could become a thing of the past. Increasingly, top sports stars are electing to be treated with [...]

Stem cell therapy is transforming medicine and with it the lives of increasing numbers of patients with life-threatening illnesses. In this article we hear from three sets of parents who have [...]

Probably the most dreaded word in medicine, cancer affects millions of people around the world and the number of new cases is rising each year. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported 14.1 [...]

It is now nearly 30 years since the first successful cord blood stem cell transplant took place. In just a short space of time, this ground-breaking branch of medicine has made considerable [...]

Today marks World Cord Blood Day (#WCBD17). Here at Smart Cells, we have chosen to support the day by releasing information and stats on cord blood transplants and its effects across our digital [...]

Stem cell therapy is one of the most exciting breakthroughs in modern medicine, with the capabilities of this revolutionary process in the fight against disease continuing to unfold. Storing and [...]

As a parent, it’s only natural to want to do all you can to protect your child, especially when it comes to their health and wellbeing. Collecting and storing your newborn’s stem [...]

Your baby's stem cells could save your life - Written by Dr Karen Morton, Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and founder of Dr. Morton's - The medical helpline­©

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is continually striving to provide high quality, patient centred care to each and every patient. Smart Cells International, in association with the trust, [...]

You are a collection of over 30 trillion human cells. Every one of these cells, those in your brain, lungs, liver, skin, and everywhere else, derives from a single pluripotent type of cell called [...]

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Aggressive chemotherapy followed by a stem cell transplant can halt the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), a small study has suggested. The research, published in The Lancet, looked at 24 [...]

Stroke survivors who believed they would be paralysed or need a wheelchair for the rest of their lives are walking and moving again following a ground-breaking stem cell treatment. 18 patients [...]

DIABETES sufferers have been handed hope of a new treatment after scientists reprogrammed stem cells from “love handles” so they produce badly needed insulin. Researchers in Basel, [...]

You can check out the Public Health Guidelines on Zika Virus here: Public Health Guidelines Advice for mothers wishing to store cord blood at risk of Zika Virus: Obligatory must not donate if: a) [...]

By Fergus Walsh, Medical Correspondent, BBC News   UK doctors in Sheffield say patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are showing “remarkable” improvements after receiving a [...]

10 family Christmas activities in South West London – Mummy in the City ­ <style> .es-carousel ul{display:block;} </style> Christmas at St Clements Charming Parsons Green cafe [...]

When I returned to the Kensington Wing at Chelsea and Westminster after Baby Boy was born, I was sitting in the waiting area for a while and ended up spotting new parents walking around with [...]

The evening after I returned home from my first ever three-week-long holiday with two kids, including a colicky baby, I had just about enough energy to make it up the stairs from the kitchen to [...]

Smart Cells International UK’s first private cord blood company releases a 13th batch of stem cells to treat a child with life threatening illness and appoints new Scientific Director Dr. Ann [...]

A Jordanian medical team Have succeeded in four cases suffering from Diabetes (Diabetes Type 1) by transplanting stem cells in the pancreas with restoration of insulin secretion after a brief [...]

The pioneering therapy offers hope to the hundreds thousands of people suffering from inherited conditions. British doctors have cured youngsters of a deadly inherited disorder using a [...]

Our office in United Arab Emirates have recently had their computers upgraded. as part of our continuous effort to support local communities, we donated our old computers to the charity The [...]

Source: sciencemag.org | Written by: Jocelyn Kaiser The Human Placenta Project, launched last year by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) despite uncertainty over how much money would back in [...]

Excellent video from Could You Be My Match? promoting stem cells.  We liked this video so much that we decided to include this within our blog. Created in memory of Londoner Kevin Kararwa, the [...]

2015-02 Newsletter | Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Foundation | Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood | Brookeville MD 20833 | USA This legal case will please every family cord blood bank that [...]

Assaf A. Gilad, PhD, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University 2015-02 Newsletter | Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Foundation | Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood | Brookeville MD 20833 [...]

Mahendra S. Rao, MD PhD, Consultant in Regenerative Medicine 2015-02 Newsletter | Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Foundation | Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood | Brookeville MD 20833 | USA [...]

Save up to 40% at The Baby Show | ExCeL London 2015 | Visit us on stand L18 It’s the little extras that make the difference. At the UK’s leading pregnancy and parenting event, The Baby Show [...]

Source: Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Graft-versus-Host Disease (GvHD) is a common and serious complication following a stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor. GvHD is divided into [...]

Source: Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Foundation Nina and Zach Miller were the first parents from the United States to take their daughter Josephine, who has cerebral palsy, to South Korea [...]

Source: The Sun Newspaper – By Helen Gilbert ALMOST 83,000 litres of precious umbilical cord blood were just thrown away last year. Yet it is rich in potentially life-saving stem cells. At [...]

Very early in the field of cord blood banking, laboratories that process cord blood for storage began removing most of the plasma (plasma depletion) and the red blood cells (RBC depletion) before [...]

Source: Forbes.com October 8, 2014 was Stem Cell Awareness day around the world. The topic of stem cells is something that garners both passionate accolades and criticism across the board. A [...]

Ryan Benton, a 28 year-old Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy patient from Wichita, Kansas, received his first umbilical cord tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cell treatment yesterday at Asthma and [...]

Save up to 40% at The Baby Show | Olympia London 2014 | Visit us on stand D28 It’s the little extras that make the difference. At the UK’s leading pregnancy and parenting event, The Baby [...]

Cord blood transplantation is a clinically effective form of treatment for many patients with cancer and blood diseases who need a stem cell transplant (1-3). To date over 30,000 patients have [...]

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have made an important step towards greater availability of hand transplants, face transplants and other transplants involving multiple types of [...]

Hope for future treatment of thousand of stroke suffers from stem cells Brain damage caused by strokes could be repaired thanks to a new treatment which could revolutionise the treatment for the [...]

Duke Medicine received $15 million for research that explores the use of umbilical cord blood cells to treat autism, stroke, cerebral palsy and related brain disorders. The award from The Marcus [...]

Patients suffering from tendinopathy could benefit from stem cell treatment currently used in horses A stem cell treatment first used on racehorses could help humans battle a crippling Achilles [...]

Stem cell storer Smart Cells is growing overseas but struggling with attitudes in the NHS. Once discarded as medical waste, the blood left in the umbilical cord after a baby’s delivery is now [...]

Every four minutes, one person in the U.S. is diagnosed with a blood cancer. Blood stem cell transplants have become a standard way to treat children with leukemia and other blood disorders, but [...]

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is an inherited disease of red blood cells caused by a gene mutation involving a single amino acid substitution in the hemoglobin gene. The red blood cells become sickle [...]

Smart Cells is proud to be a founding donor to Borne, a collaboration between Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity and the maternity team at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, located in London, [...]

WAG Rebecca Judd is banking on the future, taking the unusual step of preserving her new daughter Billie Kate’s stem cell rich umbilical cord. The 31-year-old mother-of-two stored blood and [...]

A man who was given 18 months to live after being diagnosed with leukaemia has said his life has been saved by stem cells taken from umbilical cords. David Pyne, from Baguley, Manchester, was [...]

UK National Charity supports International Prenatal Infection Awareness Month 1 to 28 February 2014 February is International Prenatal Infection Awareness Month, the aim is to help women who are [...]

By Emma Innes Previously scientists struggled to create enough follicle-generating stem cells to produce noticeable hair growth but have now found a solution They implanted mice with special stem [...]

By James Gallagher, Health and science reporter, BBC News Stem cell researchers are heralding a “major scientific discovery”, with the potential to start a new age of personalised [...]

Swedish scientists say they have written the recipe for making ethically acceptable, highly versatile stem cells in large numbers The embryonic stem cells could be banked and turned into [...]

Durham, NC (PRWEB) January 14, 2014 A new study released in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine indicates that stem cells can be effective in treating a debilitating and sometimes lethal genetic [...]

Stem cells are being used in experimental therapy to help brain-damaged children with the hope that the cells will help their brains regenerate. Stem cells are “mother cells” – [...]

The Baby Show 21st-23rd February 2014, Stand L18– ExCel Exhibition Centre, London We are delighted to confirm that Smart Cells International will be at The Baby Show, ExCel, London 21st-23rd [...]

Source: Article from The Daily Mail | Tuesday 25th May 2004 LAST week, Britain’s first stem cell bank was opened, allowing parents to store their baby’s-blood in the hope that [...]

Researchers of Type 1 Diabetes, Arthritis, Cerebral Palsy Examine Stem Cells in Cord Blood By Peter Loftus Researchers see new potential for using blood found in the umbilical cord of newborns to [...]

  Recently, two exciting studies in China were published that highlight the co-transplantation of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (UC-MSC) and human umbilical cord blood [...]

Abstract Very small embryonic-like (VSEL) cells have been described as putatively pluripotent stem cells present in murine bone marrow and human umbilical cord blood (hUCB) and as such are of [...]

Scientists have been able to create tiny brains from stem cells in an effort to understand more about brain development and inherited neurological disorders. The scientists from the Institute of [...]

5 year old Grace Rosewood’s  developed hypotonic cerebral palsy from complications during oral surgery. The brain damage made it impossible for her to walk, but a cord blood infusion is [...]

Why guess, why not test?Women want protection from deadly newborn baby infection Newly published data[1] show that 97% of women think ALL pregnant women should routinely be offered a reliable [...]

Univ. of South Florida researchers have suggested a new view of how stem cells may help repair the brain following trauma. In a series of preclinical experiments, they report that transplanted [...]

Tiny functioning human livers have been grown from stem cells in the laboratory by scientists in Japan. They said they were “gobsmacked” when liver buds, the earliest stage of the [...]

Two patients have been taken off their HIV drugs after bone-marrow transplants seemed to clear the virus from their bodies, doctors report. One of the patients has spent nearly four months [...]

Damage caused by a heart attack has been healed using a patients stem cells gathered from his own heart. There was an unprecedented increase in new heart muscle, read more about this facsinating [...]

The Oxford Stem Cell Institute are holding their annual stem cell symposium with renouned speakers from the Medical Research Council and The Medical Research Centre for Regenerative Medicine, [...]

Two people have had their stem cells transplanted into their eyes as part of a clinical trial to restore their sight. The technique has been developed by Scottish scientists to reverse corneal [...]

Read about the latest research in cord blood stem cells from Brown University, USA by clicking on the link here.

A study conducted in India, by the department of of Edincronology has revealed that type II diabetic  patients injected with stem cells required 50 per cent less insulin as compaired to those who [...]

Arkansas (USA) has had it’s first success story involving stem cell cord blood transfusion and cerebral palsy. Watch the video of little Drakes’s story by clicking here.

For the first time, a federally-approved clinical trial is underway to determine whether stem cells from a child’s cord blood can improve symptoms of cerebral palsy. The trial, which is expected [...]

The Baby Show 25th-27th October 2013, Stand F12 – Olympia Kensington, London Thank you to everybody that came to visit us at the 2013 ExCeL, London Baby Show. As ever the event was a great [...]

Posing for the camera with a broad smile across her face, there is little sign of the difficult start to life Sasha Browne has endured. It is a scene her parents believe owes much to [...]