With the change in technique of human blood transfusion from that of bone marrow to stem cell banking, the expectations of millions of people suffering from life-threatening diseases have risen. The umbilical cord blood banking has been hailed as a major breakthrough in the world of medical science. The result is that both the patient and the donor have no grounds for confusion, fear or other emotional attachments. The umbilical cord that attaches a mother and her baby is discarded along with the placenta by the doctors. Now, this very earlier expendable thing has become quite a prized possession for health centers. Why Cord Blood has Definite Edge? The saving umbilical cord helps a donor, the mother of a child, to give it off selflessly while the receiver, usually a patient, has nothing to worry about any diseases or allergy. While banking umbilical cord option gives the donor a painless way in giving away something she hardly now possesses, for th...