"Regenerative medicine is a revolutionary approach that focuses on curing conditions as opposed to treating them. Regenerative medicine empowers doctors with the ability to replace damaged tissue in patients with healthy organic tissue that is accepted and functions like… the body's own…What truly differentiates regenerative medicine from many current therapies is that regenerative medicine has the potential to provide a cure (for) failing or impaired tissues." (U.S. Department of health and Human Services, 2005)

New treatments with cord blood focus on regenerative medicine, where doctors use stem cells to repair damaged tissues and organs in the body. This emerging field of medicine is directed at treatments for conditions such as brain injury and juvenile diabetes, which have no cure today.