Stem cell first for Smart Cells International cerebral palsy girl,aged 3.

Sasha Browne aged 3, has taken part in the first trial to treat cerebral palsy using stem cells taken at birth from her umbilical cord blood and stored with Smart Cells International.

The story was published on the 7th November 2010 in The Sunday Times.  You can read the full article on our web site by clicking the link below:

http://www.smartcells.com/news/stem-cell-first-smart-cells-international...

The article gained widespread media attention and was later published on a number of web sites such as those below:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1327635/Sasha-3-infused-stem-c...

http://www.gurgle.com/articles/Baby_Health/37596/Three_year_old_girl_is_...

Click here to read Mum, Tania, talk to 7DAYS.

This is fantastic news for Smart Cells and continues to prove the strength and validity of our service.  We reported some time ago on another medical success using stem cells we have stored.  Click here to read the story.

Whilst it is always upsetting to learn about medical problems faced by individuals whose stem cells we store, it is great we are able to help and make use of them.  We wish Sasha and her family well!

Smart Cells has recently released another sample for transplant (our third) and hope to bring more good news in the coming months.  We are the only company in the UK to have released samples for transplant.  Not only that, but two of our transplants have been sibling donated cells.  This is only possible by the way Smart Cells store stem cells.