An organization that helps to collect and store umbilical cord blood for transplantation. cord blood banks recruit expectant mothers who donate their baby's umbilical cord blood for stem cell tra [..]

Facility in which hematopoietic progenitor cells collected from the placental and umbilical cord blood vessels are processed, cryopreserved and/or stored. For purposes of FACT Standards, a Cord Blood Bank is considered a laboratory facility.