A Parent's Guide to Choosing a Private Cord Blood Bank - A thoughtful and detailed site with much background on cord blood banking. It provides a questionnaire for interviewing and evaluating private cord blood banks. Background information on medical pros and cons, laboratory procedures, and a list of storage banks.
Cells for Life, Ltd. - Information on umbilical cord blood banking at the Markham Stouffville Health Centre, Markham, Ontario, Canada.
Cord Blood Registry - Cryopreservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells. In San Bruno, California.
Cryo-Cell International - A cryobank for newborns umbilical cord stem cells. Excellent FAQ. In Clearwater, Florida. This is the American affiliate of Cryo-Cell Europe.
Lifebank (USA) - Cryopreservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells. In New Jersey and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Umbilical cord blood could replace blood marrow transplants - CNN.
Viacord umbilical cord blood banking. - Enables expectant parents to store their newborn's umbilical cord blood as a potential source of stem cells to help treat cancers & other disorders. In Boston MA.
New England Cord Blood Bank - Umbilical cord blood stem cell processing and storage. Boston, Massachusetts.
UCLA Umbilical Cord Blood Bank - The emphasis here is to support bone marrow transplants by banking umbilical cord blood from a variety of ethnic groups. In Los Angeles, California.
LIFECord Inc. - A national cord blood collection service dedicated exclusively to the collection of umbilical cord blood.
Newborn Blood Banking, Inc. - Umbilical cord blood storage bank in Tampa, Florida. They emphasize the storage of whole blood, not just stem cells.
Lifebank Cryogenics Corp. - Umbilical cord blood bank in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Umbilical Cord Blood -- What is it? - "The material that is routinely discarded after birth could one day be life saving for that person or someone else in the family." A series of summary articles for the layman.
FamilyLink® Cord Blood Storage Program - Provides for the recovery, preservation and storage of stem cells obtained from the umbilical cord immediately after child birth. These stem cells are reserved for future use by the donor or donor's family in the treatment of a variety of major diseases and serious medical conditions.
American Cord Blood Program (ACB) - The primary mission of the ACB Program is to make umbilical cord blood units available to all patients in need of unrelated transplantation worldwide through the development and maintenance of a center for the collection, storage, search and distribution of ethically and racially diverse cord blood units.
Cryobanks International - Provides umbilical cord blood storage, personal blood storage, semen banking, anonymous donor semen, and male infertility testing. Has a very good FAQ section. In Altamonte Springs, Florida.
CorCell - Private cord blood storage company that provides expert service in collection, transportation, processing, testing and long storage of cryopreserved umbilical cord blood stem cells.
CORD - A full service cryobank licensed in the State of New York offering cyropreservation of umbilical cord blood, semen banking and male infertility testing.
Cord Blood Transplantation Group (CBTG) - An international organisation which links transplant centers and research centers on biological and clinical aspects of cord blood transplantation.
The St. Louis Cord Blood Bank at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital/Saint Louis University - Learn about the St. Louis Cord Blood Bank and how you can donate your child's umbilical cord blood to help fight cancer, blood, and immune diseases. Serves hospitals within a 150-mile radius of St. Louis.
Carolinas Cord Blood Bank - Two hospitals, Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), and Durham Regional Hospital, are collection centers, and they make up the Carolinas Cord Blood Bank. Both hospitals are located in Durham, North Carolina. The units of umbilical cord blood that are collected at both Duke and Durham Regional are processed and banked at Duke.
Cord Blood Donor Foundation - Exists to provide educational awareness and to conduct further research in the use of cord blood stem cells. You can mail a SASE to receive a list of cord blood donor banks in the United States.
Cord Blood Transplant Resources - News, journal articles, organizations, private storage banks, and bone marrow transplant centers.
Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplants for Childhood Cancer Resources - Stories and annotated links related to marrow and stem cell transplants and children's cancer.
Alberta Cord Blood Bank - A non-profit organization dedicated to the collection and preservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells for public use. Although located in Edmonton, Alberta, the Bank is national in scope and collects donated waste umbilical cord blood samples from coast to coast in Canada.
Mother to Mother Educational Network - Q&A,informational links, and several good articles for expecting parents on storing umbilical cord blood stem cells. Appears to be produced or sponsored by an unidentified stem cell storage company.
Cryo-Cell Europe -- Stem Cell Technologies - Cryo-Cell specializes in the separation and storage of stem cells from the umbilical cord blood. Affiliates in the United Kingdom (Cryo-Care), Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Also connected with CryoCell International in the United States.
Cord Blood Issues - Discussion board at Parentsplace.com.
AAP statement highlights controversy about cord blood storage - Parent News - Learn about umbilical cord storage.
BabyZone: Cord Blood Retrieval - Is the belly button really the end of the line for the umbilical cord? One of the newest items of interest in obstetrics is umbilical cord blood retrieval at the birth of a woman's child.
Cryolife Cord Blood Bank - State-of-the-art facilities for the collection, processing and long-term cryogenic storage of umbilical cord blood stem cells in Hong Kong.
How Will Storing Cord Blood Help My Child? - Cancer Group Institute's umbilical cord blood banking program, providing pregnant parents an alternative to discarding their newborn's cord blood stem cells.
Miracle Blood - Article about the use of cord blood from Time.com.
Wadsworth Center Blood and Tissue Resources - Guidelines for collection, processing and storage of cord blood stem cells .
National Marrow Donor Program - Cord Blood FAQs - Frequently asked cord blood questions.
Legal Issues in Medicine -- NEJM 1999; 340: 1521-1524 - Waste and Longing: The Legal Status of Placental-Blood Banking
Puget Sound Blood Center Cord Blood Program - The program collects, processes, stores and distributes blood collected from the umbilical cord for patients needing a stem cell transplant.
South Texas Blood and Tissue Center - Cord blood collection and storage details.
Custom baby saves a life - USA TODAY Academic Health Center/ University of Minnesota. Cord blood transplant appears to have saved sister's life.
Cord blood: Preserving a lifeline - Collection and storage of newborns' umbilical cord blood for treatment against future disease is rising in popularity.
Umbilical Cord Blood Banking: Insurance Against Future Diseases? - Researchers are continuing to seek answers to the scientific and ethical questions surrounding this experimental and controversial medical procedure. A long, detailed artilce from USA Today magazine online.
