Looking to store your baby’s cord blood or know someone who is?  Make sure to Enter our Weekly Drawing!

Every week one lucky family will win free cord blood processing, shipping and 1 year of storage – a $1945 value. Winners are announced on FamilyCord’s Facebook Page each Monday.

Enter Free Cord Blood Banking Sweepstakes
 

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Enter our Mommy & Me photo contest! Share your cutest baby & mom photo on our wall and include one of your fondest memories together (memory must be included to be eligible to win)! Winners selected by 5/29/12.

Prizes:

- 1st place – 3 years free storage
- 2nd place – 2 years free storage
- 3rd place – 1 year free storage

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National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week

Please join me in the celebration of National Laboratory week. This event was established  by the CAP and ASCP several decades ago to recognize and honor those who perform core, critical tasks on which all endeavors such as ours depend. The laboratory and its staff are the very foundation of our Company.

It is you who work daily in the laboratory operation that have enabled CCB and FamilyCord to become national leaders in Reproductive Tissue and Stem Cell services. 
We, the Board, thank you. 

Charles A Sims, MD, On behalf of the Board of Directors

There are approximately 300,000 practitioners of clinical laboratory science in the United States. Since the development of this career group in the 1920s, the clinical laboratory science professional has played an increasingly vital role in the diagnosis and prevention of disease. Today, the clinical laboratorian is a key member of a health care team.

As team members of one of the largest industries in the United States, the dedicated efforts of laboratory professionals often go unnoticed by the general public, as well as by the very institutions employing their services. With the public now demanding the assurance of quality health care and professional accountability, organizations representing practitioners of this critical science have a responsibility to ensure that the public is well informed about clinical laboratory competency.

FamilyCord is proud of its medical laboratory team who work 365 days per year to process the cord blood and tissue samples from our clients.

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National DNA Day

April 19, 2012

  The California Cryobank’s Genetics Department is celebrating National DNA Day. National DNA Day commemorates the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003 and the discovery of the double helix of DNA in 1953. California Cryobank has professional genetic counselors on staff to provide a range of genetic services. Our genetic counselors have [...]

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What are Progenitor Cells

April 18, 2012

A progenitor cell is similar to a stem cell in that it has the ability to differentiate into a specific type of cell.   The progenitor cell is already more specific than a stem cell and is pushed to differentiate into its “target” cell. The most important difference between stem cells and progenitor cells is that stem cells [...]

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Increased Likelihood Predicted of Stem Cell Treatments in Ones Lifetime

April 3, 2012

While earlier studies demonstrated that the likelihood of using stem cells for treatment are 1 in 217 during a patient’s lifetime, more recent studies are predicting that as many as 1 in 100 Americans will be treated with stem cells before the age of 70 reports Dr Rhonda Verzai in the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Dr. [...]

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Clues in how Stem Cells work in Regenerative Medicine

March 27, 2012

(WSJ Blog)  Stem cells have building-block properties that make them the foundation to create specialized cells that grow into the body’s various tissues and structures. Researchers have long believed that stem cells transplanted into heart tissue, for instance, would be a primary component of whatever new tissue that grew as a result. “A lot of [...]

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Doctors Grow Blood Vessel in Girls Body

March 22, 2012

(WSJ March 21, 2012) Doctors at Yale University have successfully implanted a biodegradable scaffold seeded with a four-year-old girl’s own bone-marrow cells to help treat a serious heart defect.  Four-year-old Angela Irizarry was born with a single pumping chamber in her heart, a potentially lethal defect. To fix the problem, Angela is growing a new blood vessel in [...]

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FamilyCord – Banco de Sangre del Cordón Umbilical

March 21, 2012

  Vídeo de éxito con sangre del cordón   El almacenamiento de las células madre de su bebé le ofrece una oportunidad única de proveer protección y seguridad a su familia. Las células madre son los componentes básicos de la vida que forman muchos otros tejidos, órganos y sistemas en el cuerpo humano. En la [...]

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Oprah and Dr Oz Discuss Regenerative Medicine

March 20, 2012

Dr Oz visits a regenerative medicine laboratory of Dr Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest’s Regenerative Medicine program and discusses the possibilities with Oprah Winfrey. Pin It Tweet

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What is Cryopreservation?

March 13, 2012

Cryopreservation refers to the storage of a living organism at ultra- low-temperature such that it can be revived and restored to the same living state as before it was stored. Indefinitely long storage times require that the organism be maintained below the glass transformation temperature of aqueous solutions, approximately -130 degC, the temperature at which [...]

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