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Stem cells are showing more and more promise. One thing we know about them is that young stem cells are better than old ones. I think there is a lot of promise
by willholloway 10y ago
Stem cells are showing more and more promise. One thing we know about them is that young stem cells are better than old ones. I think there is a lot of promise in stem cell banking.
I haven't pulled the trigger yet, but do plan on banking my own stem cells while I'm in my early 30's because parts of me will inevitably start to break down in the coming decades, and I really like the idea of tapping my own young cells when I am old to heal some of that.
The only company I know of that is doing this is Forever Labs, https://www.foreverlabs.co/ https://www.foreverlabs.co/, I am not associated with them, I just think they are on the right track with stem-cell banking and have spoken to one of the founders and was pretty excited about what they were doing and think its something worth supporting, which is why I'm writing this comment.
- ahallock 10y agoThanks for this. I had no idea that young cells were better, even if that may seem obvious. I had to dig, but the price is $7000 for the procedure and lifetime storage or $3500 and then $250 per year for storage. Maybe competition in this could reduce the storage costs.
- tempestn 10y agoYa, it is a bit steep. I'd love to see more options for this as well (especially here in Canada, where I don't believe there are any yet...)
- lisivka 10y agoIn my country it costs about $1000 for procedure and $200 per year for storage, so it's very unlikely for storage to be much cheaper than now.
- piercebot 10y agoWe banked the embryonic stem cells and cord blood from our child's umbilical cord. There are a few companies that offer these services; we went with CryoCell (no affiliation).
- josephagoss 10y agoI wonder if there are ways to reconstruct stem cells from our DNA, so that we could build them from scratch.