How are Donor Stem Cells different from autologous cells?

Donor cells are obtained from pre-screened donors, and can be isolated and stored in large numbers or in individual doses for ease of use and complete dosage control.

When using autologous cells you are limited to using only however many cells can be harvested from the patient at any given time, which in some cases may not be a large enough number to have a therapeutic impact on the condition to be treated.

Donor cells also make the process easier, less expensive and faster, as well as much more pleasant for the patient, in that the cells are pre-selected and stored in ready-to-use doses, and don’t require a painful surgical procedure to obtain a sample, processing time for the tissue, cell isolation, preparation and then finally implantation. There is also no down-time or recovery time like there would be through a surgical harvesting of cells.