Prominent Narayana Health City hospital in Bangalore come-up with a public stem cell bank named the Rotary Narayana Tissue Bank and Stem Cell Research Centre. The stem cell bank is supposed to get more than three hundred thousand samples. The samples can be used for matching up for the patients reliant on the stem cells all over the country and abroad. On the other hand, the tissue bank will process, test and preserve various human tissues like skin, heart valves, cornea, bone cartilage and tendons for different therapeutic purposes.
CEO of Narayana Research Centre, Dr. Premanand Nagaraja said “Now, the issue of a private bank is, you can utilize the services of the core blood exclusively only for that particular family. It does not reach out to anybody else. Whereas, the notion of a public stem cell bank or a core blood bank would make the product available to masses” She added “Now in a public bank what happens is nobody pays you any money to collect the samples. We on behalf of the hospital and the institute spend the money, go and take the consent, collect the samples, bring it down here, process it, test it and finally store it in liquid nitrogen for any number of years.”
Stem cells are usually used in the dealing of diseases like leukemia, lymphoma, breast cancer, anaemia among others. A public stem cell means new hope for numerous blind people. Cornea surgeons think eye stem cell research has been a base of this stem cell research for a long time.
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