Abstract
Along with the continuous merging innovations and break-through technologies on the development of stem cell study, there are more researching resources in the global market which have been invested in the studies of stem cell, and consequently stem cell can be utilized in more and more different fields. A professional biotechnology research institution; Jain PharmaBiotech, predicts that the market scale of stem cell collection and storage worldwide will reach 100 million US dollar in year 2010. Since the concept of stem cell application was introduced into Taiwan, a trend on the storage, and research and development of stem cell from cord blood has progressively arisen. The market of stem cell application will become more popular and the whole industry will be more well developed, especially when Taiwan Department of Health will allow the transplant of stem cell of cord blood being categorized into the ordinary surgical treatment, surgeons will have more experience on stem cell transplant and more successful cases will be conducted in the near future.
However, the quantity of stem cell in cord blood and the chance of self-utilization have been the concerns and been questioned by the public now and then. Therefore, Bionet Corp. has been promoting a ¡§Donatable Family Banking (DFB)¡¨ project from middle of year 2004 and trying to address the above concerns. DFB project is expected to deliver the outcomes in protecting the self usage right of self payment clients on the stem cell saving of cord blood, and increasing the value and opportunity on the utilization of stem cell at the same time. Moreover, DFB project shall also be able to combine the advantages of public donation and self-saving, in order to increase the utilization rate on stem cell of cord blood, simultaneously not to cause any big financial burdens from the huge storage expenses, and eventually to reach a win-win situation between donators and service providers.
In order to further verify the feasibility and confirmation of this innovative DFB project, a Analytical Hierarchy Process will be applied through analyzing the perspectives of economy, technology and medical ethics.
Key terms
Stem Cell; Cord Blood, Donatable Family Banking, Analytical Hierarchy Process
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0815107-143654 |
| Date | 15 August 2007 |
| Creators | Chu, Jo-Lan |
| Contributors | Tsuang Kuo, Iuan-Yuan Lu, Leo Huang, Hsien-tang Tsai, Hueimei. Liang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0815107-143654 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
Page generated in 0.0044 seconds