by Insception Lifebank | Blog, Cord Blood, Cord blood stem cells, Stem cell blog
Experts in the fields of cord blood and stem cell regenerative medicine are off to San Diego this week to participate in the World Stem Cell Summit of 2013. The event is being held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel in the city, and will last from Wednesday December...
by Insception Lifebank | Blog, Cord Blood, cord blood program, Stem Cell Research
Family cord blood banking programs partner with leading hospitals and medical institutions in their respective communities to help expand research into potential therapeutic benefits derived from cord blood stem cell transplants. Insception Lifebank, Canada’s largest...
by Insception Lifebank | Blog, Cord Blood, Cord Blood Blog, cord blood program
The Canadian Blood Services completed its goal of opening Canada’s national donor cord blood banking program earlier this year. The program first launched at a hospital in Ottawa, with commitments to expand to three other cities across the country by mid-2014. CBS...
by Insception Lifebank | Blog, Cord Blood, Cord Blood Banking, cord blood questions
Now that Canada is accepting umbilical cord blood donations from families, Canadians are questioning the differences between donor and family cord blood banking. Dr. Kathleen Berchelmann, a pediatrician at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital in the US with knowledge of...
by Insception Lifebank | Blog, Cord Blood, Cord Blood Blog, Diabetes
November is internationally recognized as National Diabetes Awareness Month, an awareness campaign devoted to helping people who are or could be diagnosed with diabetes. Organizers hope to gain a better understanding of how to prevent, provide therapy, and one...
by Insception Lifebank | Blog, Cord Blood, Cord Blood Blog, cord blood research
Gamida Cell, an Israeli company, has been developing expansion technologies for blood stem cells in an attempt to overcome some of the limitations currently associated with cord blood transplants, namely the delayed time to engraftment. Gamida Cell’s NiCord is an...