CBR’s Collection, Processing and Storage Fact Sheet

Collection

• Families receive a collection kit that contains everything a caregiver needs to collect the cord blood and cord tissue.
• At the time of birth, parents must bring the collection kit to the hospital.
• After the baby is delivered and the umbilical cord has been clamped and cut, blood is drawn from the cord into a syringe or blood bag the collection system. The easy and painless process takes about five minutes.
• Once collected, the delivery staff returns the pre-addressed collection kit to the family for pick-up from the hospital room by an experienced medical courier service.
• When the medical courier retrieves the kit, it is immediately scanned.
• CBR's unique tracking technology enables us to track the collection kit from the time it leaves a mother's bedside to its arrival at the lab to the final storage location in our lab.
• Families are updated when the sample arrives in our facility and when it is safely stored.

Processing

• The kit is logged in and the cord blood is tested for sterility, viability and cell count.
• CBR's standard protocol is to process cord blood using an automated technology called the AXP AutoXpress™ Platform (AXP™).
• This system is the first fully sterile, functionally closed system for processing cord blood.
• As part of CBR's proprietary CellAdvantage® system, CBR delivers the highest published stem cell recovery rate in the industry - 99 percent.

Storage

• The stem cells are stored in vapor liquid nitrogen storage vaults that are specially designed for long-term cryo-storage.
• Storing in vapor liquid nitrogen prevents cross contamination between samples.
• CBR processes cord blood samples seven days a week, 365 days a year.
• CBR's 80,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility has the capacity to safely store the cord blood stem cells of five million newborns.

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