Understanding Cord Blood Banking vs. Stem Cell Banking
This section provides families with insights into cord blood and stem cell banking, helping them evaluate both options for maximum health benefits and understand how VitalCells elevates these practices through advanced cell expansion technology.
At VitalCells, we process and store potentially billions of your child’s live stem cells. This advanced approach to stem cells banking ensures parents preserve a far larger, more viable supply of young, healthy cells that can be accessed throughout their child’s life for future regenerative therapies. Traditional cord blood and cord tissue banks do not provide
1) enough live stem cells for your child,
2) access to these cells or
3) processing to VitalCells standard to ensure these cells are safely secured throughout the child’s life. This serves as a clear cord blood banking comparison, showing how VitalCells’ process not only stores but expands live stem cells to ensure long-term accessibility and better potential for future treatments. Parents should ask: How many live stem cells are you banking?
Two Sources Of Stem Cells:
Understanding cord blood vs cord tissue is critical for parents. This understanding becomes even more important when considering cord blood vs cord tissue banking, as each option offers unique benefits for future health applications cord blood is ideal for blood and immune system treatments, while cord tissue provides regenerative potential through MSCs. Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSCs) come from cord blood
- For matched donors use (not intended for your child’s use)
- Used to treat rare blood diseases and disorders
- Transplants (replacing the blood and immune system with donor cells)
- Limited number of cells in cord blood and often not enough for one treatment
- Cells cannot be replicated
These HSCs are an essential component in immune cell banking, as they form the foundation of the body’s immune system. By preserving them, families secure potential access to immune restoration and regenerative therapies that may support future treatments for immune-related disorders.
Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) - from cord tissue and cord blood
- Intended for autologous, personal use (for the child banked). In comparing cord tissue vs cord blood, MSCs from cord tissue can be expanded into potentially billions of cells, offering greater versatility in regenerative medicine than the limited supply of HSCs from cord blood.
- This distinction highlights the importance of understanding cord blood tissue vs blood, as cord tissue-derived MSCs offer greater regenerative capacity compared to the limited but clinically established use of cord blood cells.
- Clinical trials and studies using these cells for orthopedic, autoimmune, neurologic and other conditions
- Used in regenerative medicine to help the body repair itself from injury or disease
- Limited number of cells if not culture expanded (grown)
- Can naturally self-replicate to potentially make billions of cells-(CellMaxx)
- Ability to differentiate into several cell types, including bone, cartilage, fat, and muscle cells
- Have strong anti-inflammatory properties and can promote tissue repair by releasing growth factors that support healing
When banked at VitalCells, cells can be utilized throughout the child's life, not for just single use cases.
Your child's own stem cells can potentially enhance these benefits as these are your child’s youngest cells stored in time. The best time to bank stem cells is at birth
