The document discusses various types of cell banks including microbial culture banks, fungal cell banks, cell banks of algae, plant culture banks, animal cell banks, and cell & tissue banks in Pakistan. Some key cell banks mentioned are Cryo-Cell International, the first private cord blood bank, the Wellcome Bacterial Collection, and the Fungal Genetics Stock Center. Cell banks store and preserve various cell types for different purposes like research and transplantation.

1. Cell Banking
• A cell bank is a facility that stores cells of
specific genome for different purposes.
• The first person accredited with making a cell
bank for widespread use was Kral,
a Czechoslovakian scientist who created his
cell bank collection in the late 1890s.

2. • Cryo-Cell International is the world's first private cord
blood bank. In 1992, the company was the first in the
world to separate and preserve stem cells.
• http://www.cryo-cell.com
• There are 589 culture collections in 68 countries
registred in WDCM, & WFCC
• http://www.wfcc.info/index.php/committees/wdcm/

3. Cell& Tissue Banks
• American Type Culture Collection
• Carolina Biological Supply Company
• Neisseria Reference Laboratory NRL
• Agricultural Research Service Culture
Collection
• United States Department of Agriculture,
Agricultural Research Service

4. Microbial Culture Banks
• The Wellcome Bacterial Collection
• Bacillus Genetic Stock Center
• E. coli Genetic Stock Center
• Oregon Collection of Methanogens
• Dicty Stock Center DVBID
• Division Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases
• The Mollicutes Collection

5. Fungal Cell Banks
• ARS Collection of Entomopathogenic Fungi
• USDA-ARS Rhizobium Germplasm Resource
Collection
• Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture
of Marine Phytoplankton
• Fungal Genetics Stock Center
• Phaff Yeast Culture Collection
• University of Minnesota Rhizobium
CollectionUPRM
• Rhizobium Culture Collection

6. Cell Banks of Algae
• The Culture Collection of Algae at the
University of Texas Austin
• Plymouth Algal Culture Collection
• Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa
• National Bank of Algae
• Collection of Algae in Leningrad, St.
Petersburg, State University (Russia)

7. Plant Culture Banks
• National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR)
• National Institute of Agro biological Resources
(NIAR)
• American Association of Tissue Banks
• Collection for plant protection, All-Russian
Institute of Plant Protection
• Natural Sciences Research Institute Culture
Collection

8. Animal Cell Banks
• Mouse S Stem Cell Bank
• Marine Mamal Tissue Bank
• Ocean Genome Legacy
• National University Tissue Repository
• CryoCord Stem Cell Bank
• Miracle Cord
• Life Bank
• Bioreliance
• http://www.specimencentral.com

9. Cell & Tissue banks in Pakistan
Biovaults
Smartcells