Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Storage
Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Storage
Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Storage Links
- A Parent's Guide to Choosing a Private Cord Blood Bank A thoughtful and detailed site with much background on cord blood banking. It provides a questionnaire for interviewing and evaluating private cord blood banks. Background information on medical pros and cons, laboratory procedures, and a list of storage banks.
- CHOC Cord Blood Bank This Southern California-based Bank was recently accredited by the National Marrow Donor Program's Cord Blood Registry to collect and store umbilical cord blood stem cells at Children's Hospital of Orange County, California for transplant to unrelated recipients.
- Mother to Mother Educational Network Q&A,informational links, and several good articles for expecting parents on storing umbilical cord blood stem cells. Appears to be produced or sponsored by an unidentified stem cell storage company.
- Cord Blood Registry Cryopreservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells. In San Bruno, California.
- BabyZone: Cord Blood Retrieval Is the belly button really the end of the line for the umbilical cord? One of the newest items of interest in obstetrics is umbilical cord blood retrieval at the birth of a woman's child.
- Carolinas Cord Blood Bank Two hospitals, Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), and Durham Regional Hospital, are collection centers, and they make up the Carolinas Cord Blood Bank. Both hospitals are located in Durham, North Carolina. The units of umbilical cord blood that are collected at both Duke and Durham Regional are processed and banked at Duke.
- Cord Blood Issues Discussion board at Parentsplace.com.
- Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplants for Childhood Cancer Resources Stories and annotated links related to marrow and stem cell transplants and children's cancer.
- South Texas Blood and Tissue Center Cord blood collection and storage details.
- National Marrow Donor Program - Cord Blood FAQs Frequently asked cord blood questions.
- Transplant Forum - Placental Cord Blood Transplantation A somewhat scholarly summary of cord blood transplant facts and issues, both positive and negative.
- Newborn Blood Banking, Inc. Umbilical cord blood storage bank in Tampa, Florida. They emphasize the storage of whole blood, not just stem cells.
- Cryo-Cell Europe -- Stem Cell Technologies Cryo-Cell specializes in the separation and storage of stem cells from the umbilical cord blood. Affiliates in the United Kingdom (Cryo-Care), Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Also connected with CryoCell International in the United States.
- Custom baby saves a life USA TODAY Academic Health Center/ University of Minnesota. Cord blood transplant appears to have saved sister's life.
- Cord Blood Transplant Resources News, journal articles, organizations, private storage banks, and bone marrow transplant centers.
- AAP statement highlights controversy about cord blood storage - Parent News Learn about umbilical cord storage.
- Cord Blood Transplantation Group (CBTG) An international organisation which links transplant centers and research centers on biological and clinical aspects of cord blood transplantation.
- The St. Louis Cord Blood Bank at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital/Saint Louis University Learn about the St. Louis Cord Blood Bank and how you can donate your child's umbilical cord blood to help fight cancer, blood, and immune diseases. Serves hospitals within a 150-mile radius of St. Louis.
- Umbilical Cord Blood -- What is it? "The material that is routinely discarded after birth could one day be life saving for that person or someone else in the family." A series of summary articles for the layman.
- Cryo-Cell International A cryobank for newborns umbilical cord stem cells. Excellent FAQ. In Clearwater, Florida. This is the American affiliate of Cryo-Cell Europe.
- Lifebank (USA) Cryopreservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells. In New Jersey and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Miracle Blood Article about the use of cord blood from Time.com.
- FamilyLink® Cord Blood Storage Program Provides for the recovery, preservation and storage of stem cells obtained from the umbilical cord immediately after child birth. These stem cells are reserved for future use by the donor or donor's family in the treatment of a variety of major diseases and serious medical conditions.
- Alberta Cord Blood Bank A non-profit organization dedicated to the collection and preservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells for public use. Although located in Edmonton, Alberta, the Bank is national in scope and collects donated waste umbilical cord blood samples from coast to coast in Canada.
- Cord blood: Preserving a lifeline Collection and storage of newborns' umbilical cord blood for treatment against future disease is rising in popularity.
- Puget Sound Blood Center Cord Blood Program The program collects, processes, stores and distributes blood collected from the umbilical cord for patients needing a stem cell transplant.
- Cryobanks International Provides umbilical cord blood storage, personal blood storage, semen banking, anonymous donor semen, and male infertility testing. Has a very good FAQ section. In Altamonte Springs, Florida.
- American Cord Blood Program (ACB) The primary mission of the ACB Program is to make umbilical cord blood units available to all patients in need of unrelated transplantation worldwide through the development and maintenance of a center for the collection, storage, search and distribution of ethically and racially diverse cord blood units.
- LIFECord Inc. A national cord blood collection service dedicated exclusively to the collection of umbilical cord blood.
- How Will Storing Cord Blood Help My Child? Cancer Group Institute's umbilical cord blood banking program, providing pregnant parents an alternative to discarding their newborn's cord blood stem cells.
- Cells for Life, Ltd. Information on umbilical cord blood banking at the Markham Stouffville Health Centre, Markham, Ontario, Canada.
- Wadsworth Center Blood and Tissue Resources Guidelines for collection, processing and storage of cord blood stem cells .
- Storing umbilical cord blood: Good reasons are rare. It's a hard sell to bank your baby's blood. From USNews.com.
- Cryolife Cord Blood Bank State-of-the-art facilities for the collection, processing and long-term cryogenic storage of umbilical cord blood stem cells in Hong Kong.
- CORD A full service cryobank licensed in the State of New York offering cyropreservation of umbilical cord blood, semen banking and male infertility testing.
- UCLA Umbilical Cord Blood Bank The emphasis here is to support bone marrow transplants by banking umbilical cord blood from a variety of ethnic groups. In Los Angeles, California.
- New England Cord Blood Bank Umbilical cord blood stem cell processing and storage. Boston, Massachusetts.
- Umbilical Cord Blood Banking: Insurance Against Future Diseases? Researchers are continuing to seek answers to the scientific and ethical questions surrounding this experimental and controversial medical procedure. A long, detailed artilce from USA Today magazine online.
- Legal Issues in Medicine -- NEJM 1999; 340: 1521-1524 Waste and Longing: The Legal Status of Placental-Blood Banking
- CorCell Private cord blood storage company that provides expert service in collection, transportation, processing, testing and long storage of cryopreserved umbilical cord blood stem cells.
- Study supports use of cord blood transplants Associated Press report on a *New England Journal of Medicine* article comparing cord blood transplants with bone marrow transplants.
- Viacord umbilical cord blood banking. Enables expectant parents to store their newborn's umbilical cord blood as a potential source of stem cells to help treat cancers & other disorders. In Boston MA.
- Umbilical cord blood could replace blood marrow transplants CNN.
- Lifebank Cryogenics Corp. Umbilical cord blood bank in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- Cord Blood Donor Foundation Exists to provide educational awareness and to conduct further research in the use of cord blood stem cells. You can mail a SASE to receive a list of cord blood donor banks in the United States.
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