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If you banked your cells today at the age of 30, how much therapy can be hypothetically produced from that in the future?

Is it a store that depletes as you use it? Or can banked stem cells be replicated to create more reserves?

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Different therapies will likely require different numbers of cells, and most clinical trials using MSCs involve preliminary expansion of the cells. We store multiple aliquots of your cells so that only a portion may be thawed at a time.

We don't expand the cells at this time, but will likely offer expansion services in the future.

Yes, by expanding you could create a very large reserve of cells.

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