2025-02-14
BERN - ‘Lost Cells’ is an insightful exploration of the emerging cord blood banking industry that resonates deeply with our anxieties about health, technology, and the future.
What does it mean to lose something as valuable as our DNA? That’s one of the many questions behind ‘Lost Cells’. This gripping investigative podcast series uncovers the human stories behind the promises and failures of private stem cell banking in Switzerland.
A private stem cell, or cord blood, bank is a facility that stores these important, foundation cells for the human body. Parents pay to bank cord blood from a baby’s birth in the hope of using the cells in a potential future medical treatment.
The six-part series is an original SWI swissinfo.ch trilingual podcast. ‘Lost Cells’ is available in English, Spanish, and French and was produced in collaboration with Studio OchentaExternal link, Piz Gloria Productions, and Futur Proche. It is narrated in English by award-winning science journalist, Angela SainiExternal.
Photo by SWI swissinfo.ch/ Marcus Center for Cellular Cures
Supported
€15,000 allocated on 26/01/2022ID
ECB/2021/731Tags
ONLINE
- Listen to ‘Lost Cells’: a podcast on the realities of private stem cell banking, Swissinfo, 14/02/2025.
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- Switzerland
- Italy
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