Horse owners can now collect umbilical cord tissue immediately after a foal is born and save it as a future source of therapeutic stem cells through a California-based university laboratory.
The Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine can provide kits that enable the foal’s owner or veterinarian to easily collect the umbilical cord tissue and send it to the lab, where it will be minimally processed.
One dose of stem cells will be sent back to the horse owner’s veterinarian, and another sample will be frozen and stored for as long as four years. Read more…
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