Blood cord registries and banks

Welcome, cord blood transplantation is making the headlines once more - have a read here.

Brother's stem cells save 9-year old (NDTV)
Senthil Kumar and Sarojini were told that their daughter Thamaraiparani was Thalassemia Major patient - a genetic disorder. The red blood cells in her body were haemoglobin deficit. Thamaraiparani had to receive blood transfusions every month. (Read More)

Stem-cell storage for private use (Gulf Times)
By Bonnie James Virgin Health Bank QSTP?s proposed cord blood bank is to offer processing and private storage of stem cells for 20 years at the rate of QR12,950 per sample. (Read More)

Verizon to cut the copper umbilical cord (The Inquisitr)
The telephone business has been built around the copper wire that flows through our communities, cities, and countries like a communication blood stream. However those landline phones that have been an integral part of our homes are headed the way of the Dodo bird ? it is just a matter of time. For Ivan Seidenberg, [.] (Read More)

Qatar: Stem cell bank to start in July next year (Zawya)
DOHA: Bringing renewed hope in the treatment of various medical conditions in the Eastern Mediterranean region, the Virgin Health Bank (VHB)-QSTP, will start its operations here in July 2010. The bank which collects, processes and stores cord blood, taken from the umbilical cord of newborns, was launched here in March as a partnership between Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP) and the UK . (Read More)

Tags: cord stem cell, cord blood transplants