Banking Stem Cells Is Cheaper

Name: Banking Stem Cells Is Cheaper
Uploaded: 2025-03-27T12:00:03+00:00
Duration: 3 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains how stem cell banking works: doctors extract cells from bone marrow or fat, the lab expands a million cells into 100 million…

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Dr. Charles Mok explains how stem cell banking works: doctors extract cells from bone marrow or fat, the lab expands a million cells into 100 million, then freezes them at 80 degrees below zero. Banking after liposuction costs less than harvesting again later.

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Dr. Charles Mok

2025-03-27

"They could take a million stem cells and turn into 100 million stem cells."

"80 degrees below zero" (phrasing from transcript).

You do any banking or are you just getting more. More stem cells when you need them?
We haven't done any banking. The bone marrow is such a robust source of stem cells. That's definitely something that I have been talking to patients about.
Doing. You say it's not that painful to do bone marrow aspirin. It's not. It's not that painful to do liposuction. It's not. But it's painful. That is the more scary part. Injecting the joint is actually less intimidating. When you send the tissue, which could be bone marrow or fat, to the lab, they basically separate the stem cells, the rest of the tissue. And so they could take a million stem cells and turn into 100 million stem cells. And these can turn over almost indefinitely. And then they freeze them at 80 degrees below zero. Then they ship them out to. If you're going through the omera aspirate, it's not that expensive to bank them. In our case, because we're doing the liposuction procedure, it's actually cheaper to bank them than go get them again.