The Hindu Business Line : Jeevan Blood Bank to Set up Stem Ce

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Industry & Economy - Medical Institutions & Hospitals Home States - Tamil Nadu Stories in this Section News Update Employment growth in AP Jeevan Blood Bank to set up stem cell bank put at 3.6% Reasons Your Belly is Fat News Helpline for overseas Stop making these No cost attached for poor patients workers may be launched 5 mistakes & you Front Page will finally lose your Corporate Ambulance Access for All to belly fat! Markets Keeping stock cover whole of Kerala Info-Tech www.BellyFatIsUgly.net Marketing About 30% of total capacity will be for private storage. ‘Nanotech useful in Money & anti-cancer research’ Banking Initial cost of project at Rs 4 crore. Agri-Biz & Plastic roads in Madurai HSBC Premier town panchayats Commodities Stem cells help cure over 70 medical conditions. Be open to a world Industry & of possibilites First project to go on stream Economy where ever you are. in 2009: Anil Ambani Logistics Apply online! Government Our Bureau RSP expansion may help www.hsbcpremier.com Opinion raise SAIL output to 26 mt in Variety Chennai, Jan. 4Chennai-based Jeevan Blood Bank plans to 3 yrs Columns establish public stem cell bank to offer stem cells for treatment States of the needy. Draft REIT regulations lack Market Profits Index tax guidance More Archives Unveiling the plan, the Chairman of Jeevan Blood Bank and Program Exchang Research Centre, Dr P. Srinivasan, said the stem cells would SIDCO estate near Madurai Features Money automatic. help in curing more than 70 medical conditions including blood Shefexil nodal office in Increase Money in cancers and other haematological conditions like thalassemia. Investment World Shillong your bank www.marketingprofitsmore.com eWorld IIMB provides CSR teaching Brand Line Called Jeevan Stem Cell Bank (JSCB), the bank would collect resources online Mentor umbilical cord blood from women immediately after their Life delivery, harvest stem cells, test for transmissible infections, KPIT focussing on Stem mAbs: CD34 Brand Quest store and ultimately release safe compatible units to anyone embedded systems for CD133, CD127, The New who needed them. hybrid cars CD11c, CD117, Manager F4/80 Premium Abs ‘Take industry into Towards this, JSCB would be associating with various hospitals for Flow & Stocks confidence on clinical Bill’ in the city. It is called ‘stem cell’ because it is harvested from Enrichment the umbilical cord, which acts as root/stem for formation of Setting store by www.eBioscience.com Quotes echocardiography SE Diary several cells right from the formation of the foetus. Scoreboard Target Jeevan Blood Bank to set up Open-End Mutual stem cell bank Fund According to Dr Srinivasan, JSCB was the first not-for-profit More land for commercial Cross Currency stem cell bank in the country. JSCB project would go live use at Udaipur airport before the end of March this year, he said, and added that the Rates target was to collect about 40,000 units of stem cells in five Kerala unveils draft land years. The bank hopes to complete accreditation processes by policy international agencies by December. Chamber seeks better infrastructure facilities Shipping The initial capital cost of the project was Rs 4 crore, but funding requirement would go up to Rs 20 crore in five years, Low-key start to Hyderabad film fest Ports since the capacity of the stem cell harvesting and the relative storage facility would be increase significantly, Dr Srinivasan ‘Education, services, banking said. lead print ad surge’ Archives Costs B-school students opting for novel courses Yesterday Answering a question, he said it would cost around Rs 40,000 Datewise Sarda Group plans training Resources to harvest and store one unit of stem cells with the bank. centre for jute products In Focus In Depth About 30 per cent of the bank’s total capacity would be utilised ‘Telecom sector most for private storage option while the rest is meant for the politicised in the world’ general public. Sikkim set to lure tourists with casino For the poor

Search “We will charge a one-time fee of Rs 70,000 from private parties towards processing and storage of stem cells. JSCB will make available matched stem cell units free of cost to poor Group Sites patients, while we will charge about Rs 1 lakh for other patients. The same will cost about Rs 11 lakh in Singapore,” The Hindu said the medical director of JSCB, Dr Saranya Nandakumar. The Hindu The income generated would help run the bank and also serve ePaper the poor patients, she added. Business Line Business Line More Stories on : Medical Institutions & Hospitals | Tamil Nadu

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