A thoughtful and detailed site with much background on cord blood banking. It provides a questionnaire for interviewing and evaluating private cord blood banks. Background information on medical pros and cons, laboratory procedures, and a list of storage banks.

Learn about umbilical cord storage.

General discussion by Dr. Vincent Ianelli of whether or not you should bank your baby's umbilical cord blood in a private bank.

A non-profit organization dedicated to the collection and preservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells for public use. Although located in Edmonton, Alberta, the Bank is national in scope and collects donated waste umbilical cord blood samples from coast to coast in Canada.

A network of four banks offering umbilical cord blood collection and storage. Storage in Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, and New York.

Private umbilical cord blood banking services for families throughout Canada. In Toronto.

Discussion by Dr. Gerard M. DiLeo on the collection of umbilical cord blood at the birth of a woman's child.

Stories and annotated links related to marrow and stem cell transplants and children's cancer.

Umbilical cord blood stem cell, semen, and embryo storage bank in California.

Two hospitals, Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), and Durham Regional Hospital, are collection centers, and they make up the Carolinas Cord Blood Bank. Both hospitals are located in Durham, North Carolina. The units of umbilical cord blood that are collected at both Duke and Durham Regional are processed and banked at Duke.

Information on umbilical cord blood banking at the Markham Stouffville Health Centre, Markham, Ontario, Canada.

Offers collection and storage of stem cells derived from the umbilical cord blood. In Harrow, England.

Private cord blood storage company that provides expert service in collection, transportation, processing, testing and long storage of cryopreserved umbilical cord blood stem cells.

A full service cryobank licensed in the State of New York offering cryopreservation of umbilical cord blood, semen banking and male infertility testing.

Information on cord blood banking and medical uses of stem cells.

A pediatricians's discussion on the benefits and risks of donating a baby's umbilical cord blood. From the "Keep Kids Healthy" website.

Exists to provide educational awareness and to conduct further research in the use of cord blood stem cells. You can mail a SASE to receive a list of cord blood donor banks in the United States.

Private cord blood bank stores lifesaving stem cells from your baby's umbilical cord for your family's future use. A subsidiary of StemCyte, Inc.

Cryopreservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells. Headquarters in San Bruno, California; storage in Tucson, Arizona.

A non-profit organization dedicated to increasing awareness about the importance of cord blood banking. Information on stem cells, medical uses and review of cord blood banks in Canada.

News, journal articles, organizations, private storage banks, and bone marrow transplant centers.

Collection and storage of newborns' umbilical cord blood for treatment against future disease is rising in popularity.

An umbilical cord blood banking company with offices in California and other U.S. states.

New Zealand licensed cord blood collection, processing, and storage facility.

Cryo-Cell specializes in the separation and storage of stem cells from the umbilical cord blood. Affiliates in the United Kingdom (Cryo-Care), Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Also connected with CryoCell International in the United States.

A cryobank for newborn's umbilical cord stem cells. Excellent FAQ. In Clearwater, Florida. This is the American affiliate of Cryo-Cell Europe.

Provides umbilical cord blood storage, personal blood storage, semen banking, anonymous donor semen, and male infertility testing. Has a very good FAQ section. In Altamonte Springs, Florida.

A facility in London to store stem cells from the umbilical cord blood following childbirth.

State-of-the-art facilities for the collection, processing and long-term cryogenic storage of umbilical cord blood stem cells in Hong Kong.

USA TODAY Academic Health Center/ University of Minnesota. Cord blood transplant appears to have saved sister's life.

Detailed information on cord blood donation from the National Marrow Donor Program. Links on this page lead to longer explanations and to an extensive list of cord banks, both NMDP members and others.

Cordblood storage services; part of Community Blood Services. In Paramus, New Jersey.

Provides for the recovery, preservation and storage of stem cells obtained from the umbilical cord immediately after child birth. These stem cells are reserved for future use by the donor or donor's family in the treatment of a variety of major diseases and serious medical conditions.

Umbilical cord blood stem cell bank cryopreserved after baby's birth for therapeutic purposes. In Nottingham, England.

Cancer Group Institute's umbilical cord blood banking program, providing pregnant parents an alternative to discarding their newborn's cord blood stem cells.

Waste and Longing: The Legal Status of Placental-Blood Banking

Cryopreservation of umbilical cord blood stem cells. In New Jersey and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Umbilical cord blood bank in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Umbilical Cord Blood Bank in Cyprus, with offices in Nicosia, Cyprus and London, UK.

Frequently asked cord blood questions.

Umbilical cord blood stem cell processing and storage. Boston, Massachusetts.

Umbilical cord blood storage bank in Tampa, Florida. They emphasize the storage of whole blood, not just stem cells.

The program collects, processes, stores and distributes blood collected from the umbilical cord for patients needing a stem cell transplant.

Collection and cryogenic storage of umbilical cord blood stem cells for the potential treatment of various diseases. In Canton, Ohio.

Cord blood collection and storage details.

Umbilical Cord Blood Bank in Ontario, Canada.

A company in Malaysia which stores and processes cord blood.

The emphasis here is to support bone marrow transplants by banking umbilical cord blood from a variety of ethnic groups. In Los Angeles, California.

"The material that is routinely discarded after birth could one day be life saving for that person or someone else in the family." A series of summary articles for the layman.

Researchers are continuing to seek answers to the scientific and ethical questions surrounding this experimental and controversial medical procedure. Article by Holly Wagner of USA Today magazine online.

CNN.

Enables expectant parents to store their newborn's umbilical cord blood as a potential source of stem cells to help treat cancers & other disorders. In Boston MA.

New York State Department of Health Guidelines for collection, processing and storage of cord blood stem cells.