Stem cell banks strike the right 'cord'

It was a keen desire to secure the future of his soon-to-be born baby that made Japin Sibal, a young IT professional from Gurgaon, do an Internet search for various savings schemes available before......

India's 1st public stem cell bank soon

Every year around 25 million children are born in India, almost one every second! Result: a bursting population. But this is not a story of India's teeming millions or what should be done to......

LifeCell eyes Malaysia, Dubai

Country's first private 'cord blood bank' LifeCell would have two banks one each in Malaysiaand Dubai and 60 marketing and collection centres in Asian region, including India, in the next two years......

Health, quite literally, is wealth

It's a kind of a bio-insurance," says Prasad Mangipudi, vice-president, marketing, LifeCell. Mangipudi is explaining why parents should opt to preserve blood from the umbilical cord at the time of......