Posts Tagged ‘Stem cells’
Stem Cells possible treatments on diseases
We have been hearing a lot about stem cell banks and cord blood banks and about stem cells in general with the breakthrough made by scientists and the debate around the use of human stem cells. Finally, we do not know a lot about how those stem cells are extracted and then stored in stem [...]
Stem cells transplant as a treatment
The transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells is today really established as a therapy for various types of congenital or other acquired severe disorders of the hematopoietic system as well as for chemo or radiosensitive malignancies. It includes autologous and allogeneic transplants of hematopoietic stem cells from bone marrow, peripheral blood or cord blood. Donors for [...]
The Potential use of Human Stem Cells
The potential use of human stem cells and the outcomes is huge in term of saving lives, but many people are against that and consider it unethical because we would be using human tissue or cells.
This debate has gone back in all minds since we are seeing more and more stem cell banks and cord [...]
The importance of cord blood stem cells
The importance of cord blood stem cells has really grown over the years as stem cell therapies have started to develop.
This development has been helped by recent researches that showed that the cells coming from an organ in the human body can actually travel to another organ and transform itself into the cell from this [...]