Stem Cell Therapies Bringing New Hope To Patients And Their Families

What are stem cell

Stem cells are a class of undifferentiated cells that are able to differentiate into specialized cell types.

Commonly, stem cells come from two main sources

Embryos formed during the blastocyst phase of embryological development (embryonic stem cells) and

Adult tissue(adult stem cells).

Both types are generally characterized by their potency, or potential to differentiate into different cell types(such as skin, muscle, bone, etc.).

Benefits Of Stem Cells

It provides medical benefits in the fields of therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine.

It provides great potential for discovering treatments and cures to a plethora of diseases including.

Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, spinal cord injuries, and diabetes.

Limbs and organs could be grown in a lab from stem cells and then used in transplants or to help treat illness.

It will help scientists to learn about human growth and cell development.

Scientists and doctors will be able to test millions of potential drug and medicine, without the use of animals or human testers. This necessitates a process of simulating the effect the drug has on a specific population of cells. This would tell if drug is useful, or has any problems.

Stem cells research also benefits the study of development stages that cannot be studied directly in a human embryo, which sometimes are linked with major clinical consequences such as birth defects, pregnancy - loss, and infertility.

A more comprehensive understanding of normal development will ultimately allow the prevention or treatment of abnormal human development.

It holds the key to reversing the effects of aging and prolonging our lives. It has already found many treatments that help in slowing the aging process, and a bonus of further research is a possible "cure" for aging , altogether.

An advantage of the usage of adult stem cells to treat disease is that a patient's own cells could be used to treat a patient, Risks would be quite reduced because patients' bodies would not reject their own cells.

Embryonic stem cells can develop into any cell types of the body, and may then be more versatile than adult stem cells.

Why Parents Save Their Baby's Stem Cells

Every person's stem cells are unique. A child is always a perfect match to his or her stem cells and may be a match for a sibling or other family member.

Requirements for treatments vary. In some cases, a child may use their own stem cells. In others, a matched sibling's stem cells would be the first choice. 

Ultimate use of newborn stem cells will be determined by the treating physician who consider if they are applicable for the condition. To be best prepared for the unexpected, save cord blood for every child.

Cord blood stem cells have advantages over bone marrow in transplants and have been used in more than 30,000 transplants to regenerate healthy blood and immune systems. 

Nowadays, an estimated 90% to 95% of cord blood is discarded after birth. Cryo-Save is convinced that cord blood storage is essential and cord tissue should be saved, either with a family private cord blood bank or made available for public use or research. We firmly believe that these important cells should be discarded.