Cell banking

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