A clinician explains how stem cell banking has shifted from on-site processing to shipping fat samples to external labs like American Stem Cell Banking in Florida for isolation and long-term storage. The new approach simplifies the workflow for staff and patients.
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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.