by Christopher Scott
In the New Scientist, I posed this question: should parents pay to have their child’s cord blood stored or instead donate it to a public cord blood bank?
My answer:
“If the couple already has a child with a life-threatening blood cancer, then banking the cord blood of a healthy newborn sibling is a fine [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘stem cell banks’
December 8, 2007
It is Better to Give
October 6, 2007
Stem Cell Banks: US vs. UK
by Christopher Scott
Recently, I spent a morning at the UK Stem Cell Bank, located in Potters Bar, a sleepy little hamlet just North of London. (Today’s city news: “The Cleaning Cupboard at 7 Southgate Road has closed with rumours that The Village Vet next door may extend into it.”)
Outside of town, however, [...]
August 31, 2007
To Bank or not to Bank
An op/ed on the topic of private stem cell banking, written with Stanford University stem cell scientist Eric Chiao, Ph.D, appears today in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Here’s a version of our essay:
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By Christopher Scott and Eric Chiao, Ph.D.
Imagine an infertile couple is visiting an IVF clinic. While there, the clinic manager asks them whether [...]
