A dozen years of clinical trials performing advanced cell therapy with perinatal cells

In this excerpt from a recent Future Science OA publication, Frances Verter, Pedro Silva Couto and Alexey Bersenev discuss trends in perinatal cell therapy for the years 2005—2017. Since 2010, the number of clinical trials per year that rely on the action of perinatal cells unique to cord blood has been between 10 and 20 trials per year, averaging 14 trials per year. Note that this does not include standard hematopoietic stem cell transplantation trials because they do not meet our criteria of only archiving advanced cell therapy. Meanwhile, the number of clinical trials that rely on cells from other...