Umbilical Cord Blood Banking CovingtonLifeSource Cryobank (LifeSource) is a physician inspired company with the purpose of providing expectant parents/families with the highest quality medical resources regarding the collection, processing and storage of their baby’s umbilical cord blood stem cells. It is our goal to provide parents with a medical resource for questions concerning the importance of understanding the biology and properties of adult stem cells, their collection from UCB and future benefits involved with their storage.
In addition, LifeSource provide a secure and trusted environment to store these unique cells.
About Cord Blood:
Cord blood is blood from the umbilical cord (UCB) of a new baby and retrieved from the placenta after birth. UCB is a unique product rich in adult stem cells. These cells due to their distinct biological properties are considered today as one of the most attractive candidates for the implementation of biological therapies. Among the types of stem cells present in UCB, the hematopoietic stem cells are probably the best known. This type of stem cell can grow all the cells in the blood. They are severely damaged in patients suffering from malignancies, bone marrow failure disorders and inherited metabolic and immunological disorders.
Recent findings have shown that UCB also contains mesenchymal stem cells, and endothelial progenitor cells. These types of stem cells are capable to give rise to tissues such as bone, cartilage, fat, cardiac muscle and new blood vessels. Consequently, umbilical cord blood contains cells with a vast potential for the treatment of diseases not only related with the bone marrow, but multiple cancers, heart conditions, circulatory problems, fractures, cartilage disorders and neurological diseases.
At present, stem cells as those present in UCB are already in use or have a great potential for use in clinical procedures associated to reparative medicine or regenerative medicine. The best example of the clinical utilization of UCB-derived stem cells is the administration of hematopoietic stem cells, by means of transplants, for the treatment of life-threatening diseases both in children and adults.
Umbilical cord blood, previously considered a waste product, can now be collected at birth from both vaginal deliveries and caesarean sections, either in utero or ex utero . Once collected, UCB is processed, cryopreserved and stored at low temperatures to provide an 'off-the-shelf' product. The UCB collection and banking process is safe, simple and painless and does not harm the mother or baby.
Reasons to Save Cord Blood:
You only have one chance to collect these unique UCB cells.
Stem cells can save lives.
Banking your baby’s stem cells guarantees an immediately available, 100% immunological matched, product for a future transplant of the baby and a biological product with a very high matching rate for siblings or close relatives.
UCB stem cells are considered one of the most promising medical treatments of the future. The clinical utilization of stem cells (regenerative medicine) represents the latest advance in treatment of multiple diseases. Instead of replacing damaged organs or chemical balance with surgery or medicine, regenerative medicines with stem cells has the potential of rebuilding such damaged organs or repair those imbalances.
New medical advances using stem cells are occurring rapidly and the diseases that can be treated with this technology is constantly increasing.
In addition, LifeSource provide a secure and trusted environment to store these unique cells.
About Cord Blood:
Cord blood is blood from the umbilical cord (UCB) of a new baby and retrieved from the placenta after birth. UCB is a unique product rich in adult stem cells. These cells due to their distinct biological properties are considered today as one of the most attractive candidates for the implementation of biological therapies. Among the types of stem cells present in UCB, the hematopoietic stem cells are probably the best known. This type of stem cell can grow all the cells in the blood. They are severely damaged in patients suffering from malignancies, bone marrow failure disorders and inherited metabolic and immunological disorders.
Recent findings have shown that UCB also contains mesenchymal stem cells, and endothelial progenitor cells. These types of stem cells are capable to give rise to tissues such as bone, cartilage, fat, cardiac muscle and new blood vessels. Consequently, umbilical cord blood contains cells with a vast potential for the treatment of diseases not only related with the bone marrow, but multiple cancers, heart conditions, circulatory problems, fractures, cartilage disorders and neurological diseases.
At present, stem cells as those present in UCB are already in use or have a great potential for use in clinical procedures associated to reparative medicine or regenerative medicine. The best example of the clinical utilization of UCB-derived stem cells is the administration of hematopoietic stem cells, by means of transplants, for the treatment of life-threatening diseases both in children and adults.
Umbilical cord blood, previously considered a waste product, can now be collected at birth from both vaginal deliveries and caesarean sections, either in utero or ex utero . Once collected, UCB is processed, cryopreserved and stored at low temperatures to provide an 'off-the-shelf' product. The UCB collection and banking process is safe, simple and painless and does not harm the mother or baby.
Reasons to Save Cord Blood:
You only have one chance to collect these unique UCB cells.
Stem cells can save lives.
Banking your baby’s stem cells guarantees an immediately available, 100% immunological matched, product for a future transplant of the baby and a biological product with a very high matching rate for siblings or close relatives.
UCB stem cells are considered one of the most promising medical treatments of the future. The clinical utilization of stem cells (regenerative medicine) represents the latest advance in treatment of multiple diseases. Instead of replacing damaged organs or chemical balance with surgery or medicine, regenerative medicines with stem cells has the potential of rebuilding such damaged organs or repair those imbalances.
New medical advances using stem cells are occurring rapidly and the diseases that can be treated with this technology is constantly increasing.
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