07/30/2014 09:45 AM EDT
July is National Cord Blood Awareness Month and is the perfect time to start learning about cord blood—a biological product regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
“Because cord blood is typically collected after the baby is delivered and the cord is cut, the procedure is generally safe for the mother and baby,” explains Keith Wonnacott, Ph.D., Chief of the Cellular Therapies Branch in FDA’s Office of Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies.
Cord blood contains blood-forming stem cells that can treat patients with blood cancers such as leukemias and lymphomas, as well as certain disorders of the blood and immune systems.
That said, cord blood isn’t a cure-all.
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