Cryo-Cell International, Inc., one of the world’s largest and most established family cord blood banks and global stem cell innovators, announced plans at the annual meeting of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) to launch Cryology RTS, a new reproductive tissue storage service for cryopreserved embryos, oocyctes and sperm. Cryology RTS is expected to [...]

Cord Blood America announced that within 90 days it will begin selling DNA Predisposition testing services in conjunction with The DNA Shop. The test involves taking a couple of droplets of blood from both mother’s blood draw, and from baby’s umbilical cord blood, for testing purposes. CBAI currently collects maternal blood samples with the umbilical [...]

Cord Blood America has recently announced that all preliminary due diligence is now complete for the acquisition of controlling interest in BioCells, Inc. BioCells is headquartered in Argentina, with affiliates under development in Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Panama and Puerto Rico. The company is the second largest stem cell storage company in Argentina, and is considered [...]

The Celebration Stem Cell Centre has just recently opened in Gilbert, Arizona. Celebration is a private umbilical cord blood bank, public cord blood donation bank, adult stem cell processing, genetic counseling and research facility. Their services include the processing and banking of umbilical cord blood, bone marrow and adipose tissue derived stem cells. They will [...]

Cord Blood America announced this week that its maverick “Afford-A-Cord” program, which reduces the initial cost of storing umbilical cord blood stem cells from $2075 to $495 plus medical courier service, will be launched on June 14, 2010 rather than July 1, 2010, as previously announced. “Because of the overwhelmingly positive response to CBAI’s initial [...]

Cord Blood America announced this week that an architectural firm has been retained for the new, 200,000 square foot umbilical cord blood processing and storage facility in China. CBAI has signed a License and Cooperation with AXM Pharma, Inc., a global pharmaceutical company with a major presence in the Chinese pharmaceutical market for more than [...]

In 2004, Insception partnered with the Toronto Cord Blood Program, Canada’s longest-running cord blood bank. The bank had previously only worked with Mount Sinai and saw the partnership with Insception as an opportunity to enhance their program. Today, Insception and the Toronto Cord Blood Program banks over 32 000 samples of cord blood. With the [...]

Cord Blood America, the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company announced today that it has signed a Definitive Supplier Agreement with an accredited tissue bank which provides placenta collection services for therapeutic transplantation. There has been mounting research showing that there are a lot of viable stem cells in the placenta and they can [...]

One of the world’s prominent cord blood banks and biotherapies companies, StemCyte Inc. USA, recently announced that it will be opening its first umbilical cord blood stem cell banking facility at Apollo Hospital in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar district. It will be the first cord blood bank facility in India which shall be used both for public [...]

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