SINGAPORE – Cordlife’s claim that viability and potency tests for over 200 cord blood samples requires a year is being contested by international experts, who say these tests can be completed in six to 10 weeks.
Three experts that The Straits Times spoke to said that there are standard tests for cell viability and potency, and it should not take a year for a regular lab to process and get the results for 200 samples. Cordlife is looking to overseas labs to aid in the testing, and to safeguard the integrity of the samples during international transportation. Cordlife will also work with experienced medical couriers adept in cold-chain logistics, the spokesman added.
To test for cell viability, a dye like 7-amino-actinomycin D is added to the cord blood sample, which turns dead cells fluorescent as their cell membranes generally become permeable. Cells of a viable cord blood sample would have proliferated and developed into different or more mature cell types. Even if the lab can only do a “low number” of five samples a day, it should take about eight to 10 weeks, said Prof Koegler, who is also the director of the Jose Carreras Cord Blood Bank, a public cord blood bank in Dusseldorf, Germany.
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