What special requirements are there in the process of cord blood transportation?
1. Special storage containers to keep and transport cord blood stem cells (temperature maintained at 4 -25°C) are to be used. 2. Ensuring that cord blood stem cells are unexposed to X-ray radiation and remote from radiation is a must. What is the clinical application rate for cord blood stem cells at present? Cord blood stem cell transplants have a history of 50 years. However, before the 1980s, the transplants carried out surgically primarily involved bone marrow. Later on, peripheral blood stem cell transplants emerged. In the 1990s, cord blood stem cells became another new source of hematopoietic stem cells and its importance is growing. According to statistics, there are now 8 million people who have registered at bone marrow registry, but the actual utilization rate only amounts to 0.196-0.2%. As for cord blood banks, there are 200,000 registrations and within a few short years, its utilization rate has now reached about 3%. What is the future for the storage of cord blood stem ce
