Saving the umbilical cord blood of your child at SSCB: a chance for life.

Thanks to the new technologies and scientific progress in the study of genetics and stem cells, the umbilical cord is nowadays considered a fundamental source of safe and autologous stem cells which can be used in human therapy without the ethical or moral concerns posed by the embryonic stem cells.

SSCB, Swiss Stem Cells Bank, is the first bank operating entirely in the Swiss territory to offer a service of umbilical cord blood collection and storage of the stem cells contained it the umbilical cord blood itself.

The collection of blood samples from the umbilical cord is and easy and safe procedure and can be done at any birthplace in or outside Switzerland. SSCB supplies for each baby to be delivered a simple kit to collect the umbilical cord blood samples and store them in the a retrieval kit that will be dispatched to SSCB's laboratories immediately after the delivery by means of a dedicated express courier.

The umbilical cord blood can be collected also in case of Caesarean births and twin births. SSCB's efficient customer services will provide all the information necessary in these particular cases as well as information and support during all the phases preceding and following the actual collection of umbilical cord blood and the storage of the stem cells.

All the samples umbilical cord blood sent to SSCB will be analysed in order to keep only the blood exempt from microbiological contamination. The stem cells separated from the umbilical cord blood samples will be stored in special cryoconservation bags for any possible future use.

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