Month: September 2022

UMBILICAL CHORD BLOOD BANKING. "The concept, which has been a possibility for about a decade, may sound bizarre but advocates claim that stem cells from the banked blood may be used at a later date to cure the child or a sibling of a host of deadly diseases, should they be struck down." http://lnkd.in/dZqH3UU View in LinkedIn

"BANKING CHORD BLOOD in a private umbilical cord blood bank, such as Cord Blood Registry or Americord Registry, is a personal choice made by both parents. Private banks store cord blood with a link to the identity of the donor, so that the family may retrieve it later if it is needed. The parents have custody of the cord blood until the child is an adult." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_blood_bank View in LinkedIn

PERSONALIZED STEM CELL MEDICINE: "to create custom stem cell lines for patients. Each custom stem cell line would consist of a collection of identical stem cells each carrying the patient's own DNA, thus reducing or eliminating any problems with rejection when the stem cells were transplanted for treatment." http://lnkd.in/dsWWRQb View in LinkedIn

MECHANICS OF STEM CELL THERAPY. "For example, to treat a man with Parkinson's disease, a cell nucleus from one of his cells would be transplanted ... into an egg cell from an egg donor, creating a unique lineage of stem cells almost identical to the patient's own cells." http://lnkd.in/dsWWRQb View in LinkedIn

20,000 CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTS. "The first cord blood transplant was performed in 1988 ... Since then, more than 20,000 cord blood transplants have been performed worldwide to treat blood cancers and other blood and immune system disorders." http://www.fhcrc.org/en/treatment/treatment-research/cord-blood-transplantation.html View in LinkedIn

AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELLS. "Umbilical cord blood banking efforts have increased dramatically in the past two decades in response to increasing demand for alternative sources of blood stem cells to support patients requiring hematopoietic stem cell transplantation." http://www.hindawi.com/journals/sci/2013/463031/ View in LinkedIn

CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTS. "A cord blood transplant is a hematopoietic stem cell transplant that uses cord blood instead of bone marrow or peripheral blood as the source of blood-producing stem cells for the transplant. The transplant restores a patient’s ability to produce healthy blood cells, some of which are essential to the immune system’s ability to fight infections." http://www.fhcrc.org/en/treatment/treatment-research/cord-blood-transplantation.html View in LinkedIn

25 YEARS OF UMBILICAL CHORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTS (UCBT). "2013, marks the 25th anniversary of the first UCBT, performed by Gluckman ... in France in 1988 for a child with Fanconi anemia. More than 600 ,000 UCB units have been donated for public use worldwide, and more than 30 ,000 UCBTs have been performed." http://lnkd.in/dca-scH View in LinkedIn

1 MILLION TRANSPLANTS BY 2012. "A total of 1 million stem cell transplants (bone marrow, peripheral blood or umbilical cord blood) have been performed worldwide*. Today, more than 70 malignant and non-malignant diseases are typically treated with a stem cell transplant. This intervention, which is perfected day by day," https://www.fcarreras.org/en/a-total-of-1-million-stem-cell-transplants-have-been-performed-worldwide_147898 View in LinkedIn

UCBT SIMILAR TO BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTS. "A cord blood transplant is similar to a bone marrow transplant. However, the blood stem cells are derived from the umbilical cord blood of a newborn rather than from an adult donor. One of the advantages of umbilical cord blood is that matching between donor and recipient does not need to be as exact." http://lnkd.in/drVk_kU View in LinkedIn