What are my options for saving my baby’s cord blood?
The two options for donation today are public or private blood banks. Our NeoCells, Inc. subsidiary of ViviCells International, Inc. is a private umbilical cord blood banking company that processes, tests, cryopreserves and stores the cord blood stem cells for specific families and provides access to retrieval of the stem cells if necessary for that particular family. Public blood banks accept stem cell donations; however, the stem cell specimen you donate is no longer owned or controlled by you or your donor child. Ownership of the stem cell specimen is held by the public stem cell bank to be made available for a substantial fee on a matching basis to anyone requesting a matched specimen. As such, the original donor has lost access to his/her personal matched stem cell specimen as it is put into the public mainstream for use by other families.
