Stem cells differentiate into several kinds of cells as well as indefinitely renewing and dividing themselves. GenoSolutions offers long-term adult and umbilical cord stem cell banking to provide you with the means to collect and store your own adult or your baby’s stem cells for potential future use.

Several therapeutic uses for stem cells are presently being used and many new clinical applications are being developed in the exciting field of Regenerative Medicine.

1. Heart Attacks. Doctors have infused stem cells into the damaged heart muscle of numerous heart attack patients to see if the cells would generate new heart tissue and repair the damage. Results so far look promising.
2. Coronary Artery Disease. Doctors have infused stem cells in the hearts of patients with clogged arteries. The stem cells helped new blood vessels grow around the blocked arteries, thus improving blood flow to the areas in the heart at risk of damage.
3. Vascular Disease. Stem cells have been shown to grow new blood vessels around narrowed or damaged arteries in the limbs and restore impaired blood flow.
4. Nerves and Brain Damage. Researchers have recently shown in a laboratory setting that human stem cells can mature into nerve cells. The implications are astounding since it opens the possibility for treating a variety of neurological problems.
5. Strokes. Researchers have shown that infusing human stem cells into rats improves brain function after a stroke or traumatic brain injury.
6. Multiple Sclerosis. Doctors have infused stem cells into patients with MS and have shown mild improvement in their disease.
7. Cancer and other blood-related disorders. Besides these exciting possibilities, there are still the current uses for treating certain cancers and other blood problems. Recent research in the field of Oncology showed that the chance of a person needing his or her own banked stem cells for current treatments, by the time they are 21, is one in 2700, and the chance that a family member could use them is one in 1400.

In the adult organism, adult stem cells are present in organs like the bone marrow, the skin or the gut, which have high degrees of cell loss and require constant cell replacement. The adult stem cell is a primitive cell that can transform into many different types of cells such as blood cells, nerve cells or heart cells. Because GenoSolutions collects your own stem cells, for your own use, there are no ethical issues involved as with the use of embryonic stem cells, nor are there concerns about rejection of the cells.

Regarding the different types of stem cells, those present in bone marrow and cord blood are among those with the highest immediate therapeutic applicability. GenosSolutions offers you the ability to collect and bank both.