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Edinburgh, UK, December 7, 2016 – Precious Cells is offering their employees the ultimate employee benefit unlike anything ever seen before. They will cryogenically store employees’ and their loved ones’ stem cells, for free. This means they can be used in treatment for life threatening conditions today, tomorrow and in the future. [Read more…]
New York, USA; and Melbourne, Australia; December 6, 2016: Mesoblast Limited (ASX:MSB; Nasdaq:MESO) today announced that MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) in Texas and the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund a clinical trial combining Mesoblast’s two synergistic proprietary technologies, Mesenchymal Precursor Cell (MPC)-based expansion and ex-vivo fucosylation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) for cord blood transpl
antation in cancer patients. The trial will provide clinical data on whether the combination of these two technologies synergistically facilitates more rapid cord blood HSC engraftment for bone marrow transplant patients than can be achieved by either technology alone.
The number of allogeneic bone marrow transplants performed globally each year could be substantially increased beyond the current 30,000, for cancer and non-cancer indications, if safe and effective alternative sources of allogeneic HSCs are available, such as cord blood, for patients who cannot find a matched donor. Unfortunately, cord blood transplants are associated with prolonged engraftment times due to insufficient numbers and inadequate homing capacity of cord blood HSCs, adversely impacting their clinical outcomes. [Read more…]
Jerusalem, Israel, Tuesday, December 6, 2016 — Gamida Cell, a leader in cellular and immune therapies for the treatment of cancer and orphan genetic diseases, today announced results from its Phase 1/2 study of NiCord® for Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). The data were presented during a poster session at the 58th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting & Exposition, December 3-5, 2016 in San Diego, CA. [Read more…]
Seattle, Washington – Nohla Therapeutics Inc. (Nohla), a biotechnology company pioneering the field of universal donor cellular therapies for treating patients with life threatening hematological disorders and cancers, today announced the initial closing of a $43.5M Series A financing round. [Read more…]
The cord blood market is a complex international industry, composed of public, private, and hybrid cord blood banks.
These market participants store a range of varied products, including cord blood, cord tissue, and sometimes, related perinatal tissues and stem cell types. Rates of cord blood utilization for clinical use vary substantially as well.
Therefore, our approach to analyzing cord blood market trends is to look at it geographically, as well as by sub-segment according to blood units banked, tissue units banked, and clinical units transplanted.
A high level assessment of cord blood market growth is that North American is flat, North Asia and Southeast Asia (SEA) are growing by double digits, and Europe is declining.
To learn more, read our recent interview with Kenneth Harris of CuraSense Advisors, in which we discuss growth rates and trends within the global cord blood banking industry.
