Information on Bone Marrow and

The National Marrow Donor Program, a non-profit organization, provides information on bone marrow and cord blood transplant programs and maintains the world's largest donor registry, with 5.5 million potential volunteer donors listed. It also holds more than 40,000 blood chord units.

Cord blood banks collect and store umbilical cord blood for future use in transplants. Blood from each donation is frozen (or cryopreserved) as an individual blood chord unit that is available for transplantation. The cells from these donations are being studied as a potential treatment for numerous diseases. The National Marrow Donor Program provides a list of Network Cord Banks offer the single largest listing of umbilical cord blood units in the United States.

CBR: Cord Blood Registry® is a for-profit company that stores blood from the umbilical chord and placenta, a rich source of stem cells after the baby is born. Many families are now choosing to bank these genetically unique cord blood stem cells for the future health of their loved ones.

Cordis Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson company, has a strong commitment to perform groundbreaking work in the fight against vascular disease. The company develops cutting-edge products for interventional medicine, minimally invasive computer-based imaging, and electrophysiology.