Cryo-Cell donates to Save the Children Haiti
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Cryo-Cell International. All opinions are 100% mine.
Cryo-Cell is donating $25.00 of each enrollment in their Cryo-Cell U-Cord® and other services to the Save the Children: Haiti Relief Fund. The promotion lasts through the end of February. Cryo-Cell is a cord blood bank that cryogenically preserves the umbilical cord of newborn babies for future use. Stem cells in the normally discarded umbilical cord has future potential use for treating a variety of diseases.
Successful stem cell transplants of cells retrieved from preserved umbilical cords have been used to save or improve the lives of donors and their relatives. The most likely match besides the baby is to full siblings, future offspring and parents. However, there was a case that I read about where there was successful niece-uncle transplant. If you have been seriously considering the program and have a little one on the way, if you enroll now, the purchase will benefit Save the Children also.
There is an initial enrollment fee, plus storage fees for the service. Hopefully, an individual or family will never need it, but some feel it is a small price to pay for the chance to cure or manage a disease later in life. To me, it seems like a viable form of using stem cells without controversy. No human embryos are used or will ever be used and the procedure does not utilize animals.
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