How Stem Cell Banking Works

Name: How Stem Cell Banking Works
Uploaded: 2025-02-20T13:00:49+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains how to harvest fat tissue, send it to a lab in Florida for stem cell extraction, and bank the cells long-term for an annual fee…

20 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains how to harvest fat tissue, send it to a lab in Florida for stem cell extraction, and bank the cells long-term for an annual fee. The process starts with about 10 teaspoons of adipose tissue and yields cultured stem cells you can store and use later.

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There's a potential for the PRP to be done a second time easier than the nano fat, because the nano fat that requires liposuction, but they're somewhat comparable. Then taking that a step further, if we're getting the fat out, we can take another 10 teaspoons and send it to a lab to extract your stem cells out and then bank them. There's banks that bank, say, placental stem cells from your baby. You can also bank the stem cells out of your fat. We send the fat to a lab. In our case, we use lab in Florida. They process the stem cells out and they culture them and grow them to expand them, and then they bank them for the rest of your life. This is an annual fee, but it's very minimal.