Virgin
Mr Branson’s Contribution To The Cause!
The Virgin Health Bank vision of a private and public umbilical cord blood stem cell bank is a fairly unique idea. They believe that more cord blood units should be, more widely, available to anyone who should need them.
This is why they have a private bank, where your child’s cord blood stem cells are stored just for your family’s needs, and also a public bank that can be used by anyone.
Think Virgin Healthbank - Think stem cell storage
it is believed that there long-term goal of stem cells being used in medicine is remarkable. To help the journey, Richard Branson has made a commitment that all there future proceeds to the Virgin Health Bank shall be donated to parties that are researching the full potential of cord blood stem cells.
Another Company Working For The Cause!
Cells4Life was originally founded by doctors with the intention of storing their own children’s stem cells. They aim to set the industry’s leading standards for collection, processing and long-term stem cell storage of children’s stem cells.
Cells4Life are the only UK Company to store all of the blood from the umbilical cord, not only just the stem cells. This has proved to be of greater therapeutic value in recent publications than typically extracted stem cells. They store the cells for treating diseases like diabetes, which do not use extracted stem cells. Stem cells can be extracted from frozen thawed blood so there is no advantage to patients in performing a process we cannot reverse to regain material that in the future may be useful.
Cells4Life keep all stem cells and the umbilical cord blood just for your baby, absolutely nothing is given away. This is due to the fact only a small, limited amount of blood can be collected and as it stands this is only sufficient to treat a small child with a serious illness. Cells4Life believe that reducing this sample could put your child’s life at risk.