A Powerful Source of Stem Cells
Saving your baby’s cord tissue will expand your family’s potential treatment options.
A Powerful Source of Stem Cells
Cord Tissue Banking
Do you know what cord tissue is?
In the umbilical cord, the tissue is a gelatinous substance, which functions as the primary connective tissue of the umbilical cord and is referred to as Wharton’s Jelly. This Cord Tissue contains a powerful type of stem cell, often referred to as the regenerative stem cell, called Mesenchymal stem cells. These cells are an excellent candidate for “regenerative medicine” and tissue engineering applications.
Mesenchymal stem cells have shown great promise in the potential treatment of diseases like:
A decision that can change everything.
The umbilical cord has been viewed as medical waste commonly discarded, resulting in the loss of this potential life-saving resource. Now you can save these stem cells through GeneCell International’s Cord Tissue Banking Program so that your child can potentially benefit from new developments in cellular therapy and Regenerative Medicine in his or her lifetime.
Saving both cord blood and cord tissue will provide you with two different types of (hematopoietic from cord blood and mesenchymal from cord tissue) stem cells, which means more potential treatment options for your family.
This is how we collect it.
After cord blood is removed from your child’s umbilical cord, up to 8 inches of the cord is cut and placed into a sterile collection vessel containing a transport solution. The Cord Tissue and Cord Blood is then tested and processed in our state-of-the-art laboratory and then stored in our special cryogenic tanks.
Differences between umbilical cord blood stem cells and cord tissue segment stem cells.
- Umbilical cord blood is the blood that remains in the vein of the umbilical cord and placenta at the time of birth. This blood is rich in hematopoietic or blood-derived stem cells and therefore, can be used to treat certain types of diseases.
- The Cord Tissue Segment or Wharton’s jelly is the tissue surrounding the umbilical vein and vessels in the cord and rich in mesenchymal stem cells. The mesenchymal stem cells can differentiate into bone cells, fat cells, and cartilage, which will be used for other applications that differ from the cord blood stem cells.
