Abstract: A method and composition for treating dermatological conditions and improving skin condition and helping hair to grow or thicken involves removing extracts including beneficial secretions from mesenchymal stem cells or other cells with regenerative properties to use itself or components thereof alone or with other skin or hair care reagents as a topical ointment or formula to apply to the skin or hair topically for therapeutic and cosmetic purposes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to populations and compositions of stem and progenitor cells derived from the umbilical cord, and methods of obtaining the same. In some embodiments, one or more entire umbilical cords or sections thereof are subjected to a process where a cell population is derived without prior removal of any blood vessel. The population may be derived using mechanical and chemical means. The presently disclosed process may be applied to a single umbilical cord or to a plurality of umbilical cords, for example, as a batch process. Optionally, this process includes removing some or all cord blood before deriving the population. In some embodiments, presently disclosed cell populations include mesenchymal stem cells derived from Wharton's jelly and endothelial progenitor cells derived from a wall of a blood vessel of an umbilical cord. Optionally, the cell population includes stem cells derived from cord blood.

Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable code for mining the placenta-umbilical cord complex are disclosed. According to some embodiments, a plurality of distinct components of the placenta-umbilical complex are recovered for a placenta-umbilical cord complex of the donor and stored separately. Methods, systems and computer-readable code for determining which set of distinct components are recovered and stored, and how these components are allocated are disclosed. A method effecting a business transaction related to a placental-umbilical cord complex of a donor is disclosed were a transaction is effected whereby the donor donates a first set of components of the placental-chord complex, and the donor is provided with a private banking service for a second set of components of the placental-chord complex, wherein the first and second sets are distinct.