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PECULIARITIES OF LEGISLATIVE REGULATION OF CORD BLOOD BANKING IN USA
Banking of umbilical cord blood in the United States is regulated by law. In 2005, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a comprehensive report to Congress on cord blood banking.
The report contains clear recommendations that health care professionals should provide all expectant parents with fair...Released the next issue of the journal “Cell and organ Transplantology”
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Report on the activities and achievements of the Association of Cryobanks in 2015
1) Maintenance of the highest international quality standards in cells and tissues banking in Ukraine
One of the key tasks of the Association of Cryobanks is to provide high quality services of the banking of human tissues and cells in Ukraine by biobanks-members of the Association....
Vocal cords for the first time grown in the laboratory
For vocal cords, producing sound is no mean feat. They need to be flexible enough to vibrate, but tough enough to withstand smacking together over a hundred times per second. If our whole bodies were subjected to an equivalent force, we’d be ripped apart.
Now, for...
Industry news: the world’s first application of iPS-cells
In September 2014, in Japan the world's first operation on the application of induced pluripotent stem cells – iPS was conducted.
In 2006, Professor Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University for the first time in the world received stem cells from normal human skin cells. The cells were...The Association of Cryobanks supports Stem Cell Awareness Day in Ukraine
October 14, 2015 is a Stem Cell Awareness Day, whose purpose is to unite worldwide biotech companies, professional organizations and individuals working in the stem cells industry.
Stem Cell Awareness Day is intended to promote understanding of the importance of stem cell research and the range of their...
News of stem cell banking and clinical application (review of reports of ISSCR-2015
Interview with the world’s first patient, who had a transplant of umbilical cord blood
In 2013, 25 years passed after the world's first transplantation of cord blood stem cells, performed by Professor Eliane Gluckman at St. Louis clinic in Paris (France) to a 5-year-old American boy with Fanconi anemia. Then, back in 1988, Professor Gluckman by this very brave operation...
Ukrainian scientists presented 3 reports at ISSCR conference
