How modern technology and innovations have almost taken over the lives of people is almost undeniable. Gone were the days of manual labor, snail mails, pagers and the likes. Nothing seems to be outdated anymore and it does not only go as far as the things people use or consume but the medical field has also fully embraced the miracles brought about by studies, researches and experiments aided by technologically advanced equipment and resources. And one pivotal and life altering discoveries is the cord blood. Cord blood science or cord blood banking as more popularly known is one way of ensuring that a piece of science such as the retrieved blood cord will be restored properly and be available in the future in case the child where it will be harvested from or close family members will get life threatening diseases that it can potentially cure.Cord blood banking can be made possible either through public or private set-up. Cord blood is extracted immediately after the birth of the infant, and when the umbilical cord and the placenta is being delivered after the infant, medical doctors and professional staff would immediately clamp both ends of the cord and sever it from the infant. Cord blood then is retrieved via a needle or tube cannulated through a vein from the unclamped end of the cord, then the needle is connected to a tube, to a blood bag and normal blood collection procedure follows.

After proper collection and identification, this blood sample should then be delivered immediately to the site within forty hours so that it could be cryogenically frozen at optimum level so as it won’t go to waste. This could be stored for a long period of time in either a public cord blood bank, where the parents could donate this cord blood sample to be used by patients who can be a good match to their needs, or through a private institution previously agreed upon by the donor-parents for private future use. Advantages for both options abound since this blood sample can be used as an alternative to medical procedures which requires the utilization of blood – forming cord blood stem cells coming from bone marrow extracts. Percentage of patient matching to blood sample is high even if the donor and the recipient are not related to each other, and the success rate of transplants made is high as well.