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zolw wrote: Hi We also wanted to donate our cord, but our doctor explained that the federal funding of stem cell research has been withdrawn & thus no one accepts donations. Storing & maintaining the cord is too expensive for any organization without federal funding. There is federal funding for stem cell research. It is only human embryonic stem cell research that is limited to specific cell lines already in existence: http://stemcells.nih.gov/research/registry/ You can go he http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/crisp/crisp...enerate_screen to search for current NIH awardees. It allows you to search by subject. It's responding really slowly right now so I couldn't see if there is any currently funded research on cord blood stem cells. I bet there is though. Here's the NIH FAQ on embryonic stem cell research: http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/faqs.asp Oh, and look at this: http://www.cordblood.org/public/insights/ It looks like the congress passed an umbilical cord banking bill to provide funds for banking cord blood. Mary |
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I was talking about donating the cord, not banking it.
Ericka Kammerer wrote: zolw wrote: Hi We also wanted to donate our cord, but our doctor explained that the federal funding of stem cell research has been withdrawn & thus no one accepts donations. Storing & maintaining the cord is too expensive for any organization without federal funding. Your doctor is almost certainly misinformed. Yes, there is a funding problem, but it has nothing to do with the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research outside of the approved lines. For one thing, publicly banked cord blood is typically NOT used for research anyway. There are *very* *very* few banks that provide cord blood for research, and they tell customers specifically that their cord blood will (or may) be used for research, not banked for a recipient's use someday. The problem is simply that it costs money to harvest, process, and store cord blood donations. Since the donors aren't paying the money, *someone* has to. There's a pretty short list of public banks, and they mostly accept donations from a limited geographical area (typically only from hospitals where they have staff on hand). There just isn't a public bank near Houston. The only public bank in Texas is in San Antonio, and it only accepts donations from local hospitals. There is only one bank that accepts cord blood donations from anywhere, anytime (http://www.cryo-intl.com/cordblooddonation.html) but you have to have all your paperwork in by the 35th week (some of their cord blood does to go research as opposed to being banked for future treatment). The Red Cross does some cord blood banking, but their budget for cord blood banking was slashed something like 75 percent last year. Best wishes, Ericka |
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Mary W. wrote:
zolw wrote: Hi We also wanted to donate our cord, but our doctor explained that the federal funding of stem cell research has been withdrawn & thus no one accepts donations. Storing & maintaining the cord is too expensive for any organization without federal funding. There is federal funding for stem cell research. It is only human embryonic stem cell research that is limited to specific cell lines already in existence: http://stemcells.nih.gov/research/registry/ You can go he http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/crisp/crisp...enerate_screen to search for current NIH awardees. It allows you to search by subject. It's responding really slowly right now so I couldn't see if there is any currently funded research on cord blood stem cells. I bet there is though. Following up my own post: A search of this database using stem and cell and cord and blood for the years 2002-2004 returns 265. The actual number of grants funded by the NIH is less than that because multi year grants are reported more than once, but there certainly is federally funded research on cord blood stem cells. I expect most researchers that use human cord blood in their research are associated with hospitals that deliver babies and directly approach the mother to get consent and have mechanism in place at that institution to harvest the cord blood. Mary |
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zolw wrote:
I was talking about donating the cord, not banking it. When you donate, you donate to a public bank. That's what public banking *is*. (Private banking is when you have it stored for your own possible future use.) Best wishes, Ericka |
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zolw wrote:
Well the public bank does not accept donations (at least where I live in California). Doesn't accept donations from your hospital, or doesn't accept donations at all? If the former, that's common. Most public banks are very limited in where they'll accept donations from. If the latter, that's a contradiction in terms. A public cord blood bank is *defined* as one which accepts donations for future use by unrelated recipients. *Private* cord blood banks are those where people can store cord blood for their own family's use at some future date. (And, of course, some institutions do both public and private banking.) The National Marrow Donor Program has the largest group of affiliated public cord blood banks. On their website (http://www.marrow.org/NMDP/cord_blood_bank_list.html) they maintain lists of cord blood banks affiliated with the NMDP as well as a list of public cord blood banks which are not affiliated. The two lists include the vast majority of public cord blood banks available in the US. Best wishes, Ericka |
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In pcvgd.30599$R05.14195@attbi_s53,
zolw wrote: *Well the public bank does not accept donations (at least where I live in *California). Well, that was kind of Ericka's point. It's expensive to store the stuff. -- Hillary Israeli, VMD Lafayette Hill/PA/USA/Earth "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." --Groucho Marx |
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