Whois & Analysis for cordblood.com

A cord blood bank is a facility which stores umbilical cord blood for future use.

Both private and public cord blood banks have developed in response to the potential for cord blood in treating diseases of the blood and immune systems.

Public cord blood banks accept donations to be used for anyone in need, and as such function like public blood banks.

Traditionally, public cord blood banking has been more widely accepted by the medical community.

Private cord blood banks store cord blood solely for potential use by the donor or donor's family.

Private banks typically charge around $2,000 for the collection and around $200 a year for storage.

Stem cells are undifferentiated biological cells that can differentiate into specialized cells and can divide (through mitosis) to produce more stem cells.

They are found in multicellular organisms.

In mammals, there are two broad types of stem cells: embryonic stem cells, which are isolated from the inner cell mass of blastocysts, and adult stem cells, which are found in various tissues.

In adult organisms, stem cells and progenitor cells act as a repair system for the body, replenishing adult tissues.

In a developing embryo, stem cells can differentiate into all the specialized cells—ectoderm, endoderm and mesoderm (see induced pluripotent stem cells)—but also maintain the normal turnover of regenerative organs, such as blood, skin, or intestinal tissues.

An infant (from the Latin word infans, meaning "unable to speak" or "speechless") is the more formal or specialised synonym for "baby", the very young offspring of a human or other animal.

A blood bank is a center where blood gathered as a result of blood donation is stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusion.

The term "blood bank" typically refers to a division of a hospital where the storage of blood product occurs and where proper testing is performed (to reduce the risk of transfusion related adverse events).

However, it sometimes refers to a collection center, and indeed some hospitals also perform collection.

Learning is the act of acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing existing, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences which may lead to a potential change in synthesizing information, depth of the knowledge, attitude or behavior relative to the type and range of experience.

The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals, plants and some machines.

Progress over time tends to follow a learning curve.

Learning does not happen all at once, but it builds upon and is shaped by previous knowledge.

To that end, learning may be viewed as a process, rather than a collection of factual and procedural knowledge.

Learning produces changes in the organism and the changes produced are relatively permanent.