"There are a number of things we know that make cord blood valuable and there are things that we can only predict that it will be used for in the future, but right now there are things called stem cells which are building-block cells that can become anything — so in the future, if a baby needs certain transplants, like say, for bone marrow for leukemia. There are a lot of things that we don't even know yet that they could be used for."*

—The U.S. Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H.,
F.A.C.S. from an interview on the Discovery Health Network

"If a cord blood company is committed to research, it's a good indication that it is also committed to the future, which means they are more likely to have financial stability. Another potential benefit is that any medical breakthroughs developed by their R&D division will have been conducted using their own processing and cryopreservation methodology. In other words, you may be in a better position to benefit from their discoveries by using their processing techniques as opposed to methods used by other cord blood companies."*

— OB/GYN, Dr. Brent N. Davidson from a letter published on Babyzone.

“For the last two centuries of medicine, doctors have used surgery or drugs as tools to help our patients and to treat disease. Drugs, however, do not alter the underlying disease. They treat the symptoms, but generally they aren’t cures. Today we stand on the threshold of curing disease. Curing disease by transplanting stem cells is a huge change.”*

—Transplant Specialist, Mary Laughlin, M.D. from a recent article in The Parent
Review.