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Understanding Stem Cells – Educate Yourself

Monday, September 1st, 2014

This short 3 minute video provides a summarized overview on stem cell basics. We are living in extraordinary times with so many important breakthroughs and developments occurring in the field of regenerative medicine.

Adult stem cells are not embryonic stem cells.

Adult stem cells are the master cells of the body. They play an important role in terms of growth, maintenance, repair and renewal. Adult stem cells have the ability to maintain, self-renew and repair cells, tissue, muscle, skin and blood as well as modulate our immune response throughout our entire lifetime. These cells are often referred to as autologous, hematopoietic (blood), mesenchymal or stromal stem cells.

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Stem Cells To Replace Heart Surgery?

Thursday, August 28th, 2014

By Daily Mail

London – A pioneering stem cell treatment for patients suffering from heart failure could help them avoid surgery.

It could offer new hope for the 750 000 British patients with the most severe form of heart failure who rely on external machines to pump blood around the body to stay alive.

The groundbreaking treatment involves a single injection of 150 million adult stem cells into the heart, triggering it to generate new cells.

A new trial of the therapy is being carried out in the US on 120 patients and, if successful, could be on the market in six years.

Compared to the invasiveness of transplants or machines, the procedure is remarkably simple – stem cells are taken from the bone marrow of a healthy adult donor under local anaesthetic in a half-hour procedure.

Highly-purified stem cells, called Mesenchymal Precursor Cells (MPCs) are then manufactured, which act by releasing chemicals to regenerate heart tissue.

It means the treatment, patented by Australian firm Mesoblast, can be used “off-the-shelf”.

The study being carried out is in collaboration with the US National Institutes of Health and will take place at 20 US hospitals.

Source: Daily Mail

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