Scientific papers

The following scientific papers provide information regarding stem cells and issues surrounding their storage and use.  You will need Adobe Reader to view these documents.  This can be downloaded here.

Family-Directed Umbilical Cord Blood Banking.  This paper discusses umbilical cord blood transplantation from HLA-identical siblings.

Private Cord Blood Banking - Current Use and Clinical Future, by Peter Hollands & Catherina McCauley. This paper explains the benefits of cord blood banking, and what the future use of umbilical cord stem cells may be.

Cord blood transplantation: State of the art, by Eliane Gluckman and Vanderson Rocha. This paper summarises the successful treatments to date using umbilical cord stem cells. 

Umbilical Cord Tissue, A rich source of multipotent human stem cells with excellent potential for a diverse range of regenerative medicine therapeutics. This paper explains the different types of stem cell that can be extracted from umbilical cord blood, umbilical cord tissue, and what they may be used for.

Non-haematological uses of cord blood stem cells, by David T. Harris. This paper explains the different types of disorder that may be treated using umbilical cord stem cells.