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The potential of adult stem cells is enormous. But I can't give you convincing explanations about that area, because it's not part of my research. I believe adult stem cells will play a big role in delivering new therapies. But adult stem cells
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Tooth-derived stem cells are readily accessible and provide an easy and minimally invasive way to obtain and store stem cells for future use. Banking ones own tooth-derived stem cells is a reasonable and simple alternative to harvesting stem cells
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Medical and veterinary science has used cryogenic storage methods for decades to successfully store cells from humans and mammals. There is no reason we know of why cord blood stem cells should not be successfully stored for at least this long. In
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Patients with spinal cord injuries from around the world are watching Erica Nader, the first American to travel to Portugal, in March 2003, for experimental surgery. Cells harvested from her olfactory mucosa were transplanted into the region of her
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Adult stem cells are found in most of our organs and tissues where they could be extracted. Adult stem cell extraction is a very new process and presently only used in bone marrow transplants.
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The federal government should decide whether embryonic stem cells may be used for medical research.
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People with serious spinal cord injuries are understandably anxious and eager to find some treatment that will improve their condition. Does stem cell transplantation currently offer a realistic hope of improving the functional or pain levels of
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A stem cell is a type of cell that, under specific conditions, or provided certain chemical signals, can turn itself into different cell types that make up a human, such as nerve cells, heart cells, skin cells, blood cells, and others. Non-
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Stem cells have been used in bone marrow transplants for more than 40 years in the treatment of lymphomas, leukemia, and multiple myeloma. New clinical applications for stem cells are currently being tested therapeutically for the treatment of
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Pluripotent stem cells are generated within hours of apheresis and processing the blood samples.
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