 It can cost, for example, Jenna Edwards, a high school administrative assistant, they say in an article here in the New York Times, who's in Parkland, Florida, spent more than $3,000 storing her son's cord blood. But when she tried in 2017 to withdraw the cells for a clinical trial to treat her son's cerebral palsy, this is, by the way, another condition for which there is a little scant evidence that maybe injecting these stem cells will somehow regenerate the brain.