{"id":1427,"date":"2019-08-01T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navyblue.bcmultistaging.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:16:55","slug":"cord-blood-bank-premature-babies-lifesaving-research-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/lavoie-lab\/2019\/08\/01\/cord-blood-bank-premature-babies-lifesaving-research-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Cord blood bank for premature babies makes life-saving research gains in first year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fndry-paragraph fndry-text-intro22\">BC Women&#8217;s Hospital&#8217;s Preemie Biobank is the first of its kind in Canada.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"fndry-paragraph\">Dr. Pascal Lavoie is a neonatologist&nbsp;and the driving force behind the biobank,&nbsp;which has been able to focus on health issues unique to pre-term babies, including their vulnerability to infection.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"fndry-paragraph\">&#8220;There is no way you&#8217;re going to understand this by studying an adult immune system,&#8221; Lavoie said. &#8220;Babies are different, their cells react differently. That&#8217;s why cord blood is vital.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"fndry-paragraph\">To read more, go to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/cord-blood-bank-for-premature-babies-makes-life-saving-research-gains-in-first-year-1.5229666\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBC story here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC Women&#8217;s Hospital&#8217;s Preemie Biobank is the first of its kind in Canada. Dr. Pascal Lavoie is a neonatologist\u00a0and the driving force behind the biobank,\u00a0which has been able to focus on health issues unique to pre-term babies, including their vulnerability to infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","fndry_alternate_title":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":"Andrea Sakamoto","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/lavoie-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/lavoie-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/lavoie-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/lavoie-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/lavoie-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/lavoie-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/lavoie-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/lavoie-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/lavoie-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/lavoie-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/lavoie-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}