Selecting cord blood companies

There are many cord blood companies that propose their services and procedures for those families who decide to bank the umbilical cord blood of their baby for the family benefits. But not all of them have proper conditions for collecting, processing and storing the umbilical cord blood.

A serious cord blood company uses the most competitive and efficient methods for ensuring the cord blood family trust. The cord blood stem cells must be treated cryogenically and stored in a substance, called liquid nitrogen, waiting for the time when it will be needed. Freezing umbilical cord blood may wait several decades for the right time to be used so that a respectable cord blood company should ensure the proper treatment and storage system that will provide the same amount of cord blood stem cells when necessary.

There is also a cord blood company named Cord Blood Family Trust that has the slogan: “we believe it's not just about saving blood, it's about saving lives”. The other activities and programs derive from this slogan, ensuring life saver guarantee and other advantages that other cord blood companies cannot provide. Although Cord Blood Family Trust is a private bank, it was created by StemCyte, a public donor bank. There are some advantages derived from this fact: that the experience gained in the well-known public bank and special interest was added to the development of a private cord blood company that may provide more units for cord blood stem cell transplants than any other private umbilical cord blood bank. “Saving lives” seems to be this cord blood company's priority while comparing the prices for all needed steps for banking umbilical cord blood. Nevertheless, Cord Blood Family Trust's stability grows together with its respectability and world fame of the StemCyte. The financial strength of the cord blood company is given by this successful bivalence for sustaining both the cord blood donation and the cord blood banking for the family's own use.

Most cord blood companies use freezing systems for umbilical cord blood with special freezer units for the used types of collection and storage: bags or vials. There are two types of freezer machines that take care of the preservation of the umbilical cord blood by freezing the samples. Both of them try to maintain the same freezing temperature, avoiding the warming of the umbilical cord blood. This freezing method for umbilical cord blood is said to maintain the viability of the stem cells from 10 to 15, even 20 years, but there are still studies that hope to improve the period of preservation.