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Students enrolled in the University of Toronto’s DEEP Summer Program were provided with an exclusive tour of Insception Lifebank’s cord blood banking facilities. To give the pre-university students a concise understanding about cord blood stem cells, the Insception Lifebank team showed them how cord blood banking actually works.
For the week, the group of students were studying stem cells as part of a course called, Stem Cells: the Past, Present and Future. The course set out to inform students about the history of stem cells and the directions in which the technology is heading in the future. Cord blood banking is a burgeoning technology, and students in the program were educated about its current uses and its vast scope for the future.
Instructors from the DEEP Summer Academy were pleased with the visit, stating that the tour gave students the chance to see, first-hand, how umbilical cord blood is collected, processed and stored.
“They’re learning about a hot topic that will continue to evolve when they enter the workforce,” says instructor Esther Lau.
Cord blood banking and stem cell technology will certainly continue to develop over the years. By learning about these technologies now, students will be able to make well-informed decisions about banking their own children’s cord blood in the future. Some may even decide to enter the biosciences industry.