Bank of milk teeth

Future Health Biobank is about to open in Friborg (Switzerland) and will keep the baby teeth to store the source of stem cells.

World famous for financial services - banking, Switzerland is now gradually conquering the fertile land of biological banks. According to Le Temps , after Swissbiobank, Swiss Stem Cells, Pro Crea Stem Cells ., in turn, Future Health Biobank decided to open its headquarters in the country. Future Health Biobank's facility, in fact the 1,000-square-meter laboratory, will start operating in 2012. The bank can store about 200,000 'biological assets'.

Future Health Biobank promotes services to 50 countries around the world but expects customers to come mainly from Europe. A special feature is that in addition to the usual samples for stem cells such as umbilical cord, the bank also holds the baby teeth. Catherine Clairet, director of Future Health Biobank in Switzerland, explains: 'From the baby teeth that customers send in, the experts will remove the pulp, where the stem cells are located. These cells are capable of developing into many different forms, thus helping to restore joints, muscles, nerves, even cardiovascular damage. Medicine is developing very fast and applications with stem cells are increasingly being expanded . ' However, this is still considered 'save' for the future because there is currently no treatment to use stem cells directly from baby teeth. Scientists are still in the process of studying this area.

The bank will provide a special container for parents to spit out their baby's teeth when they are still shaken, to avoid until the teeth fall off. Included in the box is the baby's blood sample. At a cost of nearly 2,600 Swiss francs (VND 59 million), the marrow of the baby teeth will be refrigerated at -193 ° C for 25-50 years, even 75 years.