How would you feel if your blood cord and placenta or aborted embryos were taken for stem cell research? How would you feel if your blood cord and placenta or aborted embryos were taken for stem cell research?

I would feel proud that I was able to help people have a better life.

My bone marrow transplant used cord blood. I think research is a far better thing to do with left over IVF embryos than the trash. And as far as an aborted fetus, I think all dead humans should be used for research. I am donating my own body to research, so I would most definatly donate embryos that I was releasing to a clinic for destruction, and I would most definatly donate the remains of a fetus I had aborted.

Dh and I have started to research cord blood banking and we found this program where they will let you privately bank for free. I haven't heard too much about this before. Has anyone else heard about it? Here's the link to the program: http://cordblood.com/newborn/?id=000667

Here is what I read when I clicked on that link:

Welcome to the CBR® Newborn Possibilities ProgramSM, a new four-year program that every expecting mom can enroll in at no cost. The new program is designed to bank umbilical cord blood for newborns who may benefit from treatments using stem cells due to special circumstances identified at birth*. This may occur in as many as 1 out of every 100 babies born.

So it does look like it will bank for free or like ti says, no cost. I just requested more information so hopefully they will get back to me soon. But this is so great that there is a program that won't cost our family anything!

I want to donate my baby's cord blood.Which bank will be the best?How should i register for it? I want to donate my baby's cord blood.Which bank will be the best?How should i register for it?

If you are donating it for anyone it is free but that is only if you can find a hospital that is set up to take donations. If the hospital is set up for it, it is just like donating blood. There will be no charge to you and you will not get paid for it. However not many hospitals are set up to take donations. The only one I could find in my area was 1.5 hours away. I was not willing to go that far to deliver and my doctor could not deliver at that hospital. I didn't want to deliver with a different doctor. For this you just have to start calling hospitals and asking if they take donated cord blood, until you find one that accepts it. The hospitals associated with colleges tend to be the ones that have cord blood donation available.

If you want to bank it for yourself and your family that is where the cost comes in. Most hospitals can take it and send it to the bank you choose. The costs cover the storage and care of the cells as well as the shipping to get it there and to remove it. You can look up several cord blood banking services on line, and compare costs.

Please guide which is better for spinal cord injury: One's own stem cells or umbilical cord blood stem cell?

My cousin being a victim to spinal cord injury we are planning for his own bone marrow stem cells treatment by NCRM (http://www.ncrm.org/) - Life line hospital, Chennai group. But the first such success having been reported by a korean team in which umbilical cord blood has been used (http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200411/ ... 710440.htm) I wonder whether there is any reliable institute in India offering this treatment using umbilical cord blood.

When my sister delivered a baby we understood there are more than 7 companies in India storing the umbilical cord blood stem cells, but none were confident enough to say they could offer treatment for such diseases. can any one guide me with?

I have had patients (in India), who after storing their Umbilical cord blood couldnt use for a sibling as these cord blood storage companies simply told their clients that their responsibility is only to Store and Deliver. Leave them! Ones own bone marrow is OK, but still on experimental basis, but should the treatment you think have to take place in India, then thats only resort.

I dont think any umbilical cord blood company in India is involved in real research towards applications, as most of them are run by business men and stock brokers whose main aim is to just make money without any botheration for patients. Preferably the government should come with public banking attached to their tertiary referral hospitals to solve this problem.

For which diseases or conditions is umbilical cord blood stem-cell therapy most effective? For which diseases or conditions is umbilical cord blood stem-cell therapy most effective?

I don't agree that the answer is "none" when in fact cord blood stem cells has already proven to be effective. Below is a link for a full list of diseases treated by cord blood stem cells.

It seems as if more of the successful stories from using cord blood stem cells are for leukemia, lymphoma and sickle cell anemia.

Will Tricare pay for saving my baby's cord blood? Will Tricare pay for saving my baby's cord blood?

No, that is something you would have to pay out of pocket for:

"The following services are not covered by
TRICARE:

• Umbilical cord blood collection and storage"

That is located on the right hand side.

Banking cord blood in the Us what is the typical price for this.?

I heard some pretty outrageous numbers has anyone done this or has looked into it I haven't had a chance to yet.So I thought I would start by asking y'all.
Yeah I was hearing 10 to 20k so I'm glad to hear its so cheap. Thanks everyone.

It costs about $1000-$1500 start up and for the first year, and then can cost about $100 a year after that. The annual price is locked in for 18 years.

Give me advise on Cord Blood Registry kit (CBR) for second child.do I need this for both children?

Here is the deal. We got the first child this Cord (embellical cord) Blood Registry kit. Basically, it freezes the childs embelical cord blood with the stem cells.incase she would need some organ later in life she could have these stem cells formed into whatever.

So.my wife wants this for the second child as well.They told her it is DNA related and that needs to match.however, a sibling could also use the others stem cells with a less successful rate. I just can't buy that info.it just sounds to me like they're trying to sell us some more stem cells.

Here is my question (s): Aren't stem cells interchangeble.regaurless of who they came from? Does the DNA really affect the success rate of stem cells?

My theroy behind these observations are simple. The debate to stem cell research was spond from scientist wanting to farm embreos.so that tells me that DNA has little or nothing to do with stem cell success.RIGHT?
Sorry for the long explanation.

However, I need proof / facts or scientific evidance in order to make this argument to my wife.links are welcome. I just feel like it's a line of BS that we need to do this because of the DNA match.
to the first answer: There are litterally millions of stem cells in this blood.I mean to be exact we got 183 million from the first childs cord blood.so I heard that one stem cell can be formed to create whatever is needed.

You should do it for both.
God forbid if your family eve needs a transfusion there has to be a match.

I know for bone marrow 70% of people are not able to find a match in their own family. One sibling's cells are not necessary going to help another.

There are literally millions upon millions of possible genetic combinations your wife and you are able to create. Siblings are often the best hope, but never a guarantee.