PUBLIC DONATION
We recommend that anyone having a mixed heritage child should bank their cord blood privately if they can afford to do so. And while people often think of mixed heritage in terms of only race, it also often covers people that are of the same race but from different geographic locals or ethnic groups. For instance, a person with Russian, German and Jewish ancestry or a person of Swedish and Greek ancestry or a person with one parent from Northern China and another parent from a remote village in Southern China may genetically differ from the population he or she is usually identified as being part of. The more research we do, the more we realize that your heritage (who has what DNA) and how it is expressed is very complex.
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Become My Hero is a donor locator service that recruits expectant mothers to donate their cord blood to a specific person-in-need. We follow the guidelines and procedures dictated by the NMDP except that we have modified such things as the date at which the expectant mother can sign up to be a donor and are not locked into only taking cord blood donations in the United States. The donor enrolls in the program and her cord blood is collected and HLA typed after her baby is born. The cord blood is then made available to that specific person for his or her transplant. This is an absolutely free service and doesn't cost you anything to donate your cord blood.
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Donors whose cord blood is determined not to match the person-in-need are given two choices:
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