Vietnam has more stem cell banks

After the bank of the Bank of Mekostem, the private stem cell bank of Vietnam Mamprotech Company is expected to go into operation at the end of 2009. This is the first company to have an investment project on stem cell technology. in HCMC high-tech zone.

Project director Mamprotech Vietnam, Mr. Nguyen Quang Duc said, investment in modern equipment of the project amounted to over $ 30,000 / person working. This is a project that is very interested in developing by Mamprotech, a parent company in Australia.

Mr. Duc also said that in addition to establishing TBG bank, the company will research and implement biomedical products with stem cell technology. All human and material resources have been prepared, in which, human resources are foreign experts and a large part is young officers of the TBG research and application laboratory of the National University of Ho Chi Minh City. HCM is headed by expert Phan Kim Ngoc.

Study of umbilical cord blood TB.(Photo: T.Huong)

Currently, the umbilical cord blood vessels and umbilical cord blood in Vietnam have been used to treat blood cancer, burns, and diabetes. In the world, since the late 1980s, people have applied umbilical stem cells to treat many anemia and hematopoietic diseases such as aplastic anemia, sickle cell anemia, Blood cancer . In addition, cord blood stem cells are studied to treat burns, diabetes, muscular atrophy, myelosuppression, stroke, heart attack, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and even in future for anti-wrinkle, anti-aging.