Where are my baby’s cord blood stem cells stored and how do I know they are stored safely?
Your child’s cord blood cells will be stored in our state-of-the-art facility located in Hackensack, New Jersey. This facility features numerous freezers where your baby’s cells will be cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen. All of our freezers are equipped with back up generators which will ensure power is not lost and your child’s cord cells remain safely stored. This facility and all systems are monitored 24-hours a day, 365-days per year by our dedicated and highly skilled technicians.

In accordance with state requirements, our facility maintains processes and procedures against major environmental disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes.

How do I know that my baby’s cord blood sample will not be confused with someone else’s?
DomaniCell assures that the care taken of your baby’s cord blood is one of our top priorities. We have developed a process that identifies your child’s cord by a unique bar code identifier from the enrollment phase, as well as a designated number assigned at our laboratory. 

     1)  When you enroll with DomaniCell, your baby's collection kit is assigned a unique identifier or individualized barcode. This identifier is assigned to     all   components-the kit, labor and delivery paperwork, cord blood transport form, the three specimen tubes, and finally the cord blood collection bag. 

     2)  Once the cord cells are received by the laboratory, they are given a second unique identification number. This number is assigned to the sample and entered into  our database for tracking and storage purposes. The second identifier is a combination of the mother’s name as well as mother’s social security number. This date  base is backed up daily. 

What kind of research are you doing?
DomaniCell is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Progenitor Cell Therapy (PCT). PCT has been engaged in processing stem cells for transplant for nearly a decade and is now a market leader in the provision of contract services for leading researchers and biotechnology companies around the world who are developing new cell-based therapies.  To learn more about PCT and its leadership in the field of cell therapies, click here.

How long can cord blood stem cells be stored? Can I continue to bank once my child reaches 18 years old?
Current science has not yet found a limit on how long stem cells can be stored and still be viable.  With DomaniCell, you can continue to store your child’s cord after 18 years. Simply call our dedicated number (1-888-8DO-MANI) and one of our experienced representatives will assist you.
 
Will I receive confirmation that my baby’s cord blood has been stored successfully?
When you provide DomaniCell with your enrollment documents, you will receive an e-mail confirmation from one of our dedicated employees.
Upon receipt of your baby’s cord blood, you will receive either a telephone call or email confirming your baby’s cells have been received by the laboratory. At that time, we will begin processing your baby’s cord.

Once the cord has been processed and all testing has been complete, you will receive a certificate of record from us as well as the applicable test results. This entire process typically takes 30 to 60 days.

What federal or state guidelines or regulations do you follow?
DomaniCell is designed to follow and strictly adheres to all quality assurance, quality control, and processing requirements of both federal (FDA) and state regulations.  In addition, the laboratory is also a member of and accredited by several organizations including:
 American Association of Blood Banks (AABB)
 Foundation for Accreditation of Cell Therapy (FACT)
 International Society for Cell Therapy (ISCT)
 
What makes DomaniCell different from other cord blood banking agencies?
We at DomaniCell believe in the importance of storing cord blood stem cells in a manner which exceeds most current industry standards for existing therapies. Let us explain...

The FDA governs the collection, processing, storage, and clinical use of cord blood stem cells. There are two levels of standards which apply: cGTP and cGMP. All cord blood banks must be compliant with cGTP standards. Most cord blood banks in the USA are satisfied with cGTP compliance because current therapies such as stem cell transplantation using cord blood stem cells are simple enough they fall within the cGTP category.

The higher cGMP standard, however, is required for more complex cell therapies presently in clinical trial and being developed as future therapies such as those in current clinical trails for Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Diabetes, spinal cord injury, Lupus, and many other diseases.

Of course cord blood stem cells banked under cGTP are perfectly suitable for today's therapies, such as stem cell transplantation. But we at DomaniCell believe that cGMP-compliant cord blood banking will be critical to the use of these stem cells in many of the more complex future therapies presently being developed. We would be happy to provide you with links to recent FDA publications which we believe support this point.

There are now a small number of leading-edge cord blood banks which require all their cord blood units to be banked in cGMP compliance.

We simply believe that if, for the same price, parents could choose to store their child’s umbilical cord blood stem cells under cGMP and thereby not limit the future potential use of those cells in more complex therapies based on cord blood stem cells, this would be an advantage worth taking.

Those using DomaniCell are assured of the strictest compliance with cGMP because cGMP production of cell-based products is the primary business of our parent company, Progenitor Cell Therapy, which performs all our cord blood and storage.