Stem cell collection, processing & preservation

The buzzword today in the field of medicine and health is umbilical cord storage or umbilical cord blood banking. Several companies are engaged in umbilical cord blood banking and storage for later use on the child or collected as donation for use by some other person who needs stem cell transplants. This is a field [...]

Cryo-Cell is headquartered in Oldsmar, Florida with a large customer base spread all over the world and a leader in family cord blood banks. It is ISO9001:2008 certified and carries the cGMP/cGTP certifications. It was the first to launch a service allowing women to cryo preserve their menstrual stem cells through cord blood collection for [...]

July is declared the Cord Blood Awareness Month in the US. Most people are not yet familiar with the term and the usages of cord blood. Cord Blood is that blood presents in the umbilical cord and fetus of a newborn infant and thence its name. Cord blood is rich in stem cells and today [...]

Since December, the Harlem Hospital has been active in counseling people, especially minorities on the advantages and benefits of donating umbilical cord blood as a rich source of cord blood stem cells so vital in treatment of cancer, leukemia, diabetes and sickle cell anemia. The P.O.L. Umbilical Cord Blood Program at its obstetrics   and gynecological [...]

Arkansas can now boast of the first cord blood bank in the country funded by the state and linked to the national registry. If you compare cord blood banks, public, state funded cord blood banks always work out cheaper and more affordable, a source of relief to people who cannot afford high costs of private [...]

Cord blood or umbilical cord blood stem cells are better to bring about healing in diseases such as cancer. In an effort to collect cord blood and begin cord blood banking to help people in need, a drive has begun in various states. In Arizona the valley hospitals are engaged in an active drive to [...]

The significance of umbilical cord blood stem cells is known to the scientists worldwide. With the help of these stem cells, doctors nowadays cure many lethal diseases that were once thought to be fatal. The students from Toronto University at DEEP Summer Academy set on a tour to study about facilities of inception of cord [...]

All parents want their child to be healthy and happy for life time. During the birth of a child, parents make a promise to the baby and to themselves to take very good care of their baby. They try everything that can increase the life expectancy of the baby. Nowadays, parents are being provided with [...]

Upon taking the responsible decision to have their baby’s stem cell cord blood collected and preserved at birth, parents should, by this point, have a clear and informed understanding about the health insurance they are gifting their unborn with.  They should additionally have a plan of action in place to ensure that the collection successfully [...]

An element of the banking of a newborn baby’s cord blood cells that many expectant parents find bewildering and off putting is that of the process itself.  Such concerns and doubts are understandable.  The bringing of a new child in to the world can be a complex, long and painful process for the healthiest of [...]