See also:
- 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.- About Cord Blood Banking - - General discussion by Dr. Vincent Ianelli of whether or not you should bank your baby's umbilical cord blood in a private bank.
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- 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.
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- Baby Chord Securacell - - Private umbilical cord blood banking services for families throughout Canada. In Toronto.
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- California Cryobank - - Umbilical cord blood stem cell, semen, and embryo storage bank in California.
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- Cells for Life, Ltd. - - Information on umbilical cord blood banking at the Markham Stouffville Health Centre, Markham, Ontario, Canada.
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- 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.
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- CORD - - A full service cryobank licensed in the State of New York offering cryopreservation of umbilical cord blood, semen banking and male infertility testing.
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- Cord Blood Banking - - A pediatricians's discussion on the benefits and risks of donating a baby's umbilical cord blood. From the "Keep Kids Healthy" website.
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- 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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- Cord Blood FamilyTrust - - Private cord blood bank stores lifesaving stem cells from your baby's umbilical cord for your family's future use. A subsidiary of StemCyte, Inc.
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- Cord Blood Registry - - Cryopreservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells. Headquarters in San Bruno, California; storage in Tucson, Arizona.
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- Cord Blood Society of Canada - - A non-profit organization dedicated to increasing awareness about the importance of cord blood banking. Information on stem cells, medical uses and review of cord blood banks in Canada.
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- Cord Partners - - An umbilical cord blood banking company with offices in California and other U.S. states.
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- 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.
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- Cryo-Cell International - - A cryobank for newborn's umbilical cord stem cells. Excellent FAQ. In Clearwater, Florida. This is the American affiliate of Cryo-Cell Europe.
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- 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.
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- Cryo-Save - - 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.
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- Donate Your Baby's Umbilical Cord Blood - - Detailed information on cord blood donation from the National Marrow Donor Program. Links on this page lead to longer explanations and to an extensive list of cord banks, both NMDP members and others.
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- 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.
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- Lifebank (USA) - - Cryopreservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells. In New Jersey and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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- Newborn Blood Banking, Inc. - - Umbilical cord blood storage bank in Tampa, Florida. They emphasize the storage of whole blood, not just stem cells.
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- SecuraCell - - Collection and cryogenic storage of umbilical cord blood stem cells for the potential treatment of various diseases. In Canton, Ohio.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Cord blood: Preserving a lifeline - - Collection and storage of newborns' umbilical cord blood for treatment against future disease is rising in popularity. (May 19, 1998)
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