Facts about CBR's State-of-the-Art Cord Blood Banking Technology

Collection

• Families receive a cord blood collection kit that contains everything a caregiver needs to collect the cord blood.


• At the time of birth, parents must bring the collection kit to the hospital


• After the baby is delivered and the umbilical cord has been clamped and cut, blood is drawn from the cord into a syringe or blood bag. The easy and painless process takes about five minutes.


• Once collected, the delivery staff returns the pre-addressed collection kit to the family for pick-up from the hospital room by an experienced courier service.


• When the courier retrieves the kit, it is immediately scanned.


• CBR's unique tracking technology enables us to track the collection kit from the time it leaves a mother's bedside to its arrival at the lab.

Processing

• The kit is logged in and the cord blood is tested for sterility, viability, and cell count.


• CBR's standard protocol is to process cord blood using an automated technology called the AXP AutoXpress™ Platform (AXP™).


• This system is the first fully sterile, functionally closed system for processing cord blood.


• As part of CBR's proprietary Cell Advantage system, CBR delivers the highest published stem cell recovery rate in the industry - 99 percent.


• CBR also has the lowest published contamination rate in the industry - less than one percent.

Storage

• The stem cells are stored in vapor liquid nitrogen storage vaults that are specially designed for long-term cryo-storage.


• Storing in vapor liquid nitrogen prevents cross contamination between samples.


• CBR processes cord blood samples seven days a week, 365 days a year.


• CBR's 80,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility has the capacity to safely store the cord blood stem cells of six million newborns.

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