First StemSource Cell Bank in U.S. open

BioLife Cell Bank, LLC (www.BioLifeCellBank.com) has opened the first U.S. StemSource® Cell Bank, which offers patients a way to safely and affordably store their own adipose (fat) tissue or their own naturally occurring adipose (fat) tissue-derived stem and regenerative cells. This gives patients and physicians easy, multi-use access to cells and tissue for future approved or allowed reconstructive fat grafting or augmentation procedures using the patients' own cells and/or tissue. Tissue and/or cells are extracted using a simple and safe liposuction procedure, and can be stored indefinitely.

"Historically fat from liposuction, which we now know has significant value, has been thrown away as medical waste," said Dr. David Genecov, board certified plastic surgeon and Medical Director of BioLife Cell Bank. "Now we can save this tissue for facial, breast, body and reconstructive surgical procedures, which rely more and more on the use of fat as natural filler."

Using a patient's own tissue and/or cells for reconstructive or cosmetic procedures is preferred by many surgeons because it does not require the introduction of foreign or synthetic materials into the body.

The bank will serve the entire United States and will be operated out of Dallas by BioLife Cell Bank, LLC, utilizing the StemSource® Cell Bank equipment from Cytori Therapeutics. This is the fourth StemSource® Cell Bank to be installed worldwide and the first in the United States.