Quality Control Kit, StemCell QC, CB

Cord blood banking and hematopoietic research laboratories rely on standardized quality assessment workflows to evaluate unit potency before transplantation or downstream experimental use. The STEMCELL Technologies cord blood quality control kit provides pre-qualified reagents and reference materials to support colony-forming unit (CFU) assays, viable CD34+ enumeration by flow cytometry, and total nucleated cell counting. Each kit contains assay components calibrated against reference cord blood samples, enabling inter-laboratory consistency for progenitor cell functionality testing. Researchers combine the included reagents with MethoCult methylcellulose-based medium to score erythroid, myeloid, and multipotent progenitor colonies after 14 days of culture at 37°C with 5% CO2. The workflow accommodates small cryopreserved or fresh sample volumes and integrates with standard flow cytometry panels for simultaneous immunophenotyping. Storage at -20°C preserves reagent activity across multiple freeze-thaw cycles, and the kit supports research use only applications in academic and translational stem cell biology settings.