Stem cell banking : a global view / Glyn Stacey -- Quality assurance in stem cell banking : emphasis on embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cell banking / Therése Kallur, Pontus Blomberg, Sonya Stenfelt, Kristian Tryggvason, and Outi Hovatta -- Acquisition and reception of primary tissues, cells, or other biological specimens / Lyn E. Healy -- Information management / Alberto Labarga, Izaskun Beloqui, and Angel G. Martin -- Cryopreservation : vitrification and controlled rate cooling / Charles J. Hunt -- Quality assured characterization of stem cells for safety in banking for clinical application / Kevin W. Bruce, John D.M. Campbell, and Paul De Sousa -- Ethics and governance of stem cell banks / Donald Chalmers, Peter Rathjen, Joy Rathjen, and Dianne Nicol -- Derivation of human Embryonic Stem Cells / Jeremy M. Crook, Lucy Kravets, Teija Peura, and Meri T. Firpo -- Derivation of human-induced pluripotent stem cells in chemically defined medium / Guokai Chen and Mahendra Rao -- Culture, adaptation, and expansion of pluripotent stem cells / Jennifer L. Brehm and Tenneille E. Ludwig -- Cryobanking pluripotent stem cells / Jeremy M. Crook, Eva Tomaskovic-Crook, and Tenneille E. Ludwig -- Genome editing in human pluripotent stem cells / Jared Carlson-Stevermer and Krishanu Saha -- Isolation, culture, and expansion of mesenchymal stem cells / Izaskun Ferrin, Izaskun Beloqui, Lorea Zabaleta, Juan M. Salcedo, Cesar Trigueros, and Angel G. Martin -- Cryobanking mesenchymal stem cells / Andrés Pavón, Izaskun Beloqui, Juan M. Salcedo, and Angel G. Martin -- Culturing and cryobanking human neural stem cells / Jeremy M. Crook and Eva Tomaskovic-Crook