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Cord Blood Registry (CBR®) by Generate Life Sciences Partners with NantKwest to Develop Covid-19 Treatment

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CBR to Provide Umbilical Cord-Derived Cellular Material to NantKwest for additional COVID-19 Clinical Trials Utilizing MSC Therapy

Los Angeles, Calif., and El Segundo, Calif., August 10, 2020 – CBR® by Generate Life Sciences, the world’s largest private newborn stem cell bank, and NantKwest (Nasdaq: NK), a clinical-stage, natural killer cell-based immunotherapy company, announced a collaboration to develop a COVID-19 treatment leveraging newborn stem cells. CBR will provide research-donated umbilical cord tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to NantKwest for efficient and robust expansion utilizing their proprietary modular, closed bioreactor system from NantKwest affiliate ImmunityBio, Inc. [Read more…]

Global Cord Blood Corporation (CO) Positioned to Merge with Cordlife Group in Asia

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Global Cord Blood Corporation (NYSE: CO) announced June 4, 2019, that its board of directors received a non-binding proposal letter from Cordlife Group Limited for the two companies to combine by way of a statutory merger. Under the terms of the nonbinding proposal, Cordlife will issue its ordinary shares at SGD0.5 per ordinary share, and in exchange, will receive all of the outstanding ordinary shares of Global Cord Blood Corporation (GCBC) at US$7.50 per share. [Read more…]

Cord Blood Banking – Present and Future Outlook

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Cord blood banking is defined as the collection and storage of stem cells present within the umbilical cord blood of a newborn for future medical use. Umbilical cord blood is rich in a type of stem cell known as a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC). A large market for the storage of these cells has come into existence over the past 30 years, with public and private cord blood banks now present in all major healthcare markets worldwide. [Read more…]

Cord Blood Banking Market Consolidation

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After a rapid growth period through the mid-2000s, the global cord blood banking market reached saturation and stabilized through approximately 2012. Since that time, the market has been aggressively consolidating.

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  1. Cord Blood Industry Consolidation in the U.S.
  2. Cord Blood Industry Consolidation in Europe
  3. Cord Blood Industry Consolidation in Asia
  4. Cord Blood Industry Consolidation in Latin America
  5. Cord Blood Industry Consolidation in India
  6. Trend of Umbilical Cord Blood Industry Consolidation

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When Did Cord Blood Banking Start? Landmark Events in Cord Blood & Tissue

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The global cord blood industry came into existence in the early 1990’s with the formation of several leading cord blood banks in the USA, followed by the establishment of cord blood banks across the globe. However, the history of cord blood stem cell transplantation begins much earlier than that.

The History of Banking Cord Blood

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