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By banking your baby's stem cells, your child and family can have access to better options for medical treatments or cures for cancers, as well as possible future treatments for conditions such as heart disease, juvenile diabetes, and brain injury.

"Diversity of Stem Cells Animation"
Stem cells from the umbilical cord and cord blood have distinct benefits compared to adult stem cells from bone marrow.

Doheney Family

"Brain Animation"
Nearly 1.4 million people in the U.S. sustain a serious form of brain injury called traumatic brain injury (TBI) every year.

Facts about CBR's State-of-the-Art Cord Blood Banking Technology

Collection

  • Families receive a cord blood collection kit that contains everything a caregiver needs to collect the cord blood.

  • At the time of birth, parents must bring the collection kit to the hospital

  • After the baby is delivered and the umbilical cord has been clamped and cut, blood is drawn from the cord into a syringe or blood bag. The easy and painless process takes about five minutes.

  • Once collected, the delivery staff returns the pre-addressed collection kit to the family for pick-up from the hospital room by an experienced courier service.

  • When the courier retrieves the kit, it is immediately scanned.

  • CBR's unique tracking technology enables us to track the collection kit from the time it leaves a mother's bedside to its arrival at the lab.

Processing

  • The kit is logged in and the cord blood is tested for sterility, viability, and cell count.

  • CBR's standard protocol is to process cord blood using an automated technology called the AXP AutoXpress™ Platform (AXP™).

  • This system is the first fully sterile, functionally closed system for processing cord blood.

  • As part of CBR's proprietary Cell Advantage system, CBR delivers the highest published stem cell recovery rate in the industry - 99 percent.

Storage

  • The stem cells are stored in vapor liquid nitrogen storage vaults that are specially designed for long-term cryo-storage.

  • Storing in vapor liquid nitrogen prevents cross contamination between samples.

  • CBR processes cord blood samples seven days a week, 365 days a year.

  • CBR's 80,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility has the capacity to safely store the cord blood stem cells of six million newborns.


ThermoGenesis©,Autoxpress™ , and AXP™ are registered trademarks of ThermoGenisis Corp., Sepax is a registered trademark of Biosafe SA. Viacord is a registered trademark of ViaCell,Inc

Banking cord blood does not guarantee that the cells will provide a cure or be applicable for every situation. For inherited genetic conditions, the child will not be able to use his or her own stem cells. A matched sibling's stem cells would be the first choice. Ultimate use will be determined by the treating physician. Treatment for brain injury and juvenile diabetes is experimental and currently requires the use of your own cord blood. Medical treatments using family banked cord tissue are in early research and are not available today; there is no guarantee that therapies will be developed in the future.
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