Dr. Charles Mok explains how stem cell banking from fat has evolved. The old way used enzymes and centrifuges in the clinic. Now patients get liposuction, send the fat to American Stem Cell Banking in Florida, and get expanded cells stored for future use.
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There's individual clinics that have their own lab where they harvest the stem cells out of the fat cells. We had been doing that for years. We'd use an enzyme and an incubator, and we would add the enzyme in, incubate the fat, and then the stem cells will be broken loose, and we centrifuge it and take the stem cell. It was really a complicated process, took a long time. What we're doing now is much easier on us and on the patient, is that we go ahead and liposuction the fat. We ship it to a lab called American Stem Cell Banking in Florida, and they do that for us. They have a lab, it's sterile, and they can. They take the stem cells out of the fat tissue, discard the f. They expand the stem cells, or as they grow them, and then they bank them. You can bank them for the rest of your life.