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Thinking about making a charitable donation to a worthy cause this holiday season?

Consider supporting an organization that increases awareness about cord blood, provides funding for cord blood research, or assists for families in need of a stem cell transplant.

Cord blood is already helping children today who suffer from a variety of debilitating conditions and life-threatening illnesses . And a recent scientific discovery made by the Salk Institute underlines how vastly more valuable cord blood stem cells might be in the future of medicine and in developing therapeutic treatments for a wide range of illnesses and disease.

Supporting a charitable organization related to cord blood (like those listed below) may not just be charitable—your dollars could provide more funding for research into countless new therapies and more awareness of the importance to store cord blood —all things that can save lives and transform the future of medicine.

Here are just a few causes to consider: