The UK’s Most Comprehensive Stem Cell Service
Unique to Cells4Life:
- Maximise your storage: Up to 2.2X more stem cells with CellsPlus.
- More cell types: The UK’s only bank for Placenta and Amnion cells.
- Trusted technology: The AXP system – used exclusively by the NHS and Cells4Life.
Why Upgrade to CellsPlus? While our standard service, Cells, uses the industry-leading AXP system – trusted by the NHS – only Cells4Life offers CellsPlus. This proprietary technology retains up to 2.2X more viable cells than Cells.
Combined with our exclusive Placenta Banking, we provide the most complete preparation for your baby’s future.
The UK’s Most Comprehensive Stem Cell Service
Unique to Cells4Life:
- Maximise your storage: Up to 2.2X more stem cells with CellsPlus.
- More cell types: The UK’s only bank for Placenta and Amnion cells.
- Trusted technology: The AXP system – used exclusively by the NHS and Cells4Life.
Why Upgrade to CellsPlus? While our standard service, Cells, uses the industry-leading AXP system – trusted by the NHS – only Cells4Life offers CellsPlus. This proprietary technology retains up to 2.2X more viable cells than Cells.
Combined with our exclusive Placenta Banking, we provide the most complete preparation for your baby’s future.
The UK’s Most Comprehensive Stem Cell Service
Unique to Cells4Life:
- Maximise your storage: Up to 2.2X more stem cells with CellsPlus.
- More cell types: The UK’s only bank for Placenta and Amnion cells.
- Trusted technology: The AXP system – used exclusively by the NHS and Cells4Life.
Why Upgrade to CellsPlus? While our standard service, Cells, uses the industry-leading AXP system – trusted by the NHS – only Cells4Life offers CellsPlus. This proprietary technology retains up to 2.2X more viable cells than Cells.
Combined with our exclusive Placenta Banking, we provide the most complete preparation for your baby’s future.
Your baby’s umbilical cord could one day change their life
Powerful stem cells in the umbilical cord help grow your baby grow in the womb. Today, doctors and scientists are investigating whether they could also support their health as they age.
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Why is Cells4Life the UK’s largest family cord blood bank?
Cells4Life is the trusted choice for UK parents, storing over 50% of all privately banked cord blood samples in the country.
Banking stem cells is a forward-thinking investment in your child’s long-term health. To make the most of this investment, you want to ensure your baby has the widest range of potential opportunities for future use.
Parents choose Cells4Life because we offer exclusive services, like CellsPlus and Placenta Banking, that are designed to maximize this potential but keeping as many cells and cell types as we can, ensuring your family is as prepared as possible for the future of medicine.
Why store cord blood?
One day, should clinical trials succeed, your baby’s cord blood stem cells may be able to…
Longevity, the future?
We are entering a new era of longevity, where the children of today may be the first generation to routinely live beyond 100. But living longer requires living healthier.
As we age, our body’s natural ability to repair itself declines. Cord blood banking allows you to capture your baby’s stem cells at their youngest and most potent state – day one.
By preserving this unique biological resource now, you are securing a personal supply of “youthful” cells. This means that, should current or future clinical trials be successful, your child may be able to access future developments in regenerative medicine aimed at extending healthspan.
The Cells4Life Advantage
Everything about our service has been designed with one purpose in mind – to provide your baby with the potential to access the ultimate protection for their long-term health.
Key benefits to banking with Cells4Life
- Superior yield: 2.2X more stem cells when you upgrade from Cells to CellsPlus*
- Exclusive service: The UK’s only placenta storage bank
- Multiple sample storage: Multiple uses becomes a possibility
- Security: Dual storage locations for added safety
- Birth plan friendly: Fully compatible with delayed cord clamping
- Comprehensive: Widest range of stem cell services available
- Convenient: 24/7, 365 days per year stem cell collection services with dedicated medical courier
- Accredited: Fully HTA licensed, NEQAS accredited, AABB accredited, ISO9001 and ISO13485 accredited
CellsPlus comparison: Which service is right for you?
| CellsPlus | Cells | |
| Post-processing stem cell yield | 90% | 87% |
| Post-thaw stem cell yield | 66% | 42% |
| Colony forming units | 0.47 | 0.34 |
| Fold stem cell retention | Up to 2.2x more | 1 |
| Waste red cell removal | 99% | 45% |
Find out more, request your welcome pack today
Discover all you need to know to make an informed decision.
Provide your contact details to request:
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- Information via email
- Contact from our specialist advisors
Find out more, request your welcome pack today
Discover all you need to know to make an informed decision.
Provide your contact details to request:
– Complete Welcome Pack and Parent’s Guide
– Information via email
– Contact from our specialist advisors
Multiple samples – Multiple treatments
We are the only stem cell bank to give you the option to store your baby’s stem cell sample in multiple portions. This means that if cell count allows, they could be used in more than one therapy, ensuring you maximize the utility of your sample.
Placenta banking – unique to Cells4Life
Your placenta contains Amnion and Placental Cells, which have powerful regenerative properties. There are numerous clinical trials investigating the use of placenta in therapies for conditions such as diabetic ulcers, stroke, and multiple sclerosis.
Multiple samples – Multiple treatments
We are the only stem cell bank to give you the option to store your baby’s stem cell sample in multiple portions. This means that if cell count allows, they could be used in more than one therapy, ensuring you maximize the utility of your sample.
Placenta banking – unique to Cells4Life
Your placenta contains Amnion and Placental Cells, which have powerful regenerative properties. There are numerous clinical trials investigating the use of placenta in therapies for conditions such as diabetic ulcers, stroke, and multiple sclerosis.
Multiple samples – Multiple treatments
We are the only stem cell bank to give you the option to store your baby’s stem cell sample in multiple portions. This means that if cell count allows, they could be used in more than one therapy, ensuring you maximize the utility of your sample.
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Placenta banking – unique to Cells4Life
Your placenta contains Amnion and Placental Cells, which have powerful regenerative properties. There are numerous clinical trials investigating the use of placenta in therapies for conditions such as diabetic ulcers, stroke, and multiple sclerosis.
LEARN MORESupporting families
We have successfully helped families access their stem cell samples for a variety of uses. Our track record ranges from approved blood and immune therapies for siblings with conditions like leukaemia and anaemia, to exciting new clinical trials for brain injuries like cerebral palsy and stroke.
Our release statistics:
- 86% released for pioneering clinical trials
- 27% released for cerebral palsy
- 27% released for autism
- 23% released for brain injury
- 14% released for approved therapies for blood and immune conditions
- 60% of releases were for sibling treatments
- 40% of releases were for donor treatments
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“The service we received from our phlebotomist was first class, Jo was always at the end of the phone at the crucial build up to Oliver’s arrival and Jo was extremely professional and very caring during the collection of the cells after he’d been born, always there when I needed advice.” Lisa Whitehead |
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“I was so impressed with the entire team and cannot recommend them and the benefits of Umbilical Stem Cell blood bank storage enough. This is potentially life changing for you and your family.” Naomi Isted, Style & Beauty Presenter and Columnist |
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“My son’s stem cells are now stored and ready should he ever need them. It was reassuring to know that they may even be a match for his big sisters if ever they were ill.” Kim Bromwich, Paediatric Surgical Nurse |
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“This is all about safeguarding the future of our new family – ensuring that we can live a normal, happy life.” Georgia Woods, mum of two |
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“It was almost a sort of ‘guarantee’ for the future health of my children. I can’t recommend it highly enough.” Catherine McCormack, mum of three |
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“I wanted to make sure all eventualities were covered… when I discovered cord blood banking – I knew it was the right choice.” Zoe Gillings-Brier, Olympian |
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“As a parent, you naturally want to protect your child and taking the stem cells at birth is the easiest and most pain-free way to do so.” Harry & Izzy Judd, McFly drummer and wife |
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How does stem cell storage work?
It is quick, simple, non-invasive, and completely safe. You won’t even need to change your birth plan. We have designed our process to ensure that collecting stem cells never gets in the way of your special day. We take care of everything: arranging your phlebotomist, processing, testing, and long-term storage. You should receive results within a couple of days.
Who is cord blood banking for?
Storing cord blood is an excellent choice for expectant parents who want to:
- Secure a perfect genetic stem cell match for their child’s future medical use.
- Access potential regenerative therapies currently in clinical trials (e.g., for brain injury).
- Preserve a powerful resource that is otherwise discarded at birth.
How much does cord blood banking cost?
Prices start at just £550 plus a yearly fee. Our range of services is tailored to suit most budgets and requirements. We are committed to helping every parent bank their baby’s umbilical cord stem cells if they want to.
You can explore our pricing options or call us on 01444 873950.
Why I banked my own children’s stem cells
“I founded Cells4Life because I saw a future where stem cells could transform medicine.
As a biologist, I knew that a baby’s umbilical cord blood contains their own perfect stem cell match. Cells that are at their absolute youngest and most potent, untouched by age or environment.
I envisioned a future where, as science progresses, these cells could potentially repair a brain injury, treat diabetes, or even rebuild damaged tissue. I started this company to secure this powerful resource for my own children, to help give access to these breakthroughs should clinical trials succeed.
Today, Cells4Life exists to enable every other parent to do the same.“
— Lesley-Ann Martin, Chief Scientific Officer, Co-Founder & Mother of two.
Cells4Life: fast facts
Experience
Over 20 years of cord blood banking experience-
Volume
The UK’s largest cord blood bank by volume of UK customers -
Licensing
Fully HTA licensed and regulated -
Global reach
Serving customers in the UK, Europe, USA and Middle East -
Technology
The only UK cord blood bank offering CellsPlus processing 
Most comprehensive
The UK’s only placenta bank
A brief history of cord blood stem cells
Medicine has progressed beyond all recognition since stem cells were discovered in the late 1800s. The first stem cell transplant using bone marrow was performed in New York in 1950 and since then they have been used in over 1 million therapies to treat a vast range of diseases. Cord blood stem cells were introduced in therapy in 1988, when prominent American scientist Dr Hal Broxmeyer used cord blood to save the life of a five-year-old boy suffering from Fanconi Anaemia. In the last 30 years, donor cord blood, such as from a sibling, has been used in transplant over 35,000 times, treating more than 80 different conditions; from leukaemia and lymphoma, to sickle cell anaemia.
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The future – regenerative medicine
Looking to the future, stem cells are considered to be one of the pillars of an exciting new field known as regenerative medicine. Regenerative medicine looks to restore structure to damaged tissues and organs or, if they are broken beyond repair, create new versions as replacements. Stem cells are ideally suited to this purpose due to their capacity to differentiate into a large number of different cell types.
Current Research & Clinical Trials
Scientists are currently conducting clinical trials investigating cord blood stem cells for:
- Diabetes
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Heart Disease
- Alzheimer’s
- Gene Therapies: Investigating solutions for genetic conditions where autologous (own) cells currently cannot be used without modification.
Early evidence from these clinical trials indicates that many serious conditions could one day, should these trials progress, be managed using stem cells from a cord blood and cord tissue.
By storing your baby’s cord blood today, you can help prepare them for this vision of the future.
Find out more, request your welcome pack today
Discover all you need to know to make an informed decision.
Provide your contact details to request:
- Complete Welcome Pack and Parent’s Guide
- Information via email
- Contact from our specialist advisors
Find out more, request your welcome pack today
Discover all you need to know to make an informed decision.
Provide your contact details to request:
– Complete Welcome Pack and Parent’s Guide
– Information via email
– Contact from our specialist advisors
*Based on our peer reviewed publication showing that TotiCyte delivers up to 2.2 times more haematopoietic stem cells at the point of use than our next best system, AXP.
