CORD:USE Quality Practices and Advanced Technologies

CORD:USE is obstetrician led and directed by an unparalleled team of the world's leading cord blood experts with more than 100 years of combined cord blood knowledge and experience to help protect your family's cord blood.Â CORD:USE team's knowledge of critical factors that determine future viability of the cord blood stem cells guide CORD:USE's utilization of high-quality practices and highly advanced technologies.

In addition to the CORD:USE Family Cord Blood Bank, CORD:USE operates a public cord blood bank that is accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) which is considered by transplant physicians as one of the highest accreditations that can be achieved. CORD:USE Public Cord Blood Bank is one of the cord blood banks funded by HRSA of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Public cord blood banks are regulated by more stringent guidelines than family cord blood banks. CORD:USE Family Cord Blood Bank will protect your family's cord blood in its state-of-the-art laboratory utilizing similar high-quality cord blood banking practices and technologies that are used in our leading public cord blood bank.

Because Cell Viability is Critical,
CORD:USE Uses Advanced Technologies to Protect Your Family's Cord Blood.

Award-Winning Shipping Technology

Patented shipping system exclusively licensed to and used by CORD:USE for transporting cord blood.
Winner of the U.S. Army's Greatest Inventions Award.
Credited with saving lives on the battlefield and revolutionizing the methods used for distributing temperature-sensitive medical products.
Optimizes the health of the cord blood unit.

The Only FDA Approved Cord Blood Collection Bag

Prefilled anticoagulant used by the world's leading public cord blood banks to protect the cord blood.
Completely sterile for use in vaginal and cesarean section deliveries.

Automated Processing Technology

Used by many of the world's leading public cord blood banks.
Has processed more units subsequently used in transplantation than any other automated technology.
Automated closed processing system provides a greater likelihood that the cord blood will be viable and a higher number of cells can be stored.

Automated Cryo-Storage Technology

Used by the world's leading public cord blood banks.
Advanced robotic technology designed to keep the cryogenic freezer closed, while inserting or removing units, to prevent possible warming of the cord blood which can damage the cells and decrease the viability.
The majority of family cord blood banks use manual freezers which require a lid to be opened and entire racks of stored cord blood units to be raised in order for new units to be added or stored units to be removed.