Stem Cells

The concept of stem cells is more and more widely debated outside the medical circles where it started from. Stem cells are unspecialized cells that have the extraordinary capacity to develop into any kind of specialized cells necessary in the body, not to mention the fact that they have the capacity to renew themselves through [...]

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A huge controversy touches upon stem cell research because of the way embryos are created, used and destructed for study purposes alone. The main interest in stem cell research comes from the possibility to develop treatments and cures for the irrecoverable diseases that plague humanity such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, Parkinson’s, heart attacks and so [...]

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Due to the great medical potential discovered in stem cells, many therapies rely on their use for the treatment of various diseases and injuries. In many experts’ opinion, stem cell cures have the huge potential of stopping devastating illnesses that claim people’s life after intense suffering. The mechanism on which the use of stem cell [...]

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Chemotherapy as a cancer treatment destroys the blood generating cells in the bone marrow, which is why transplants are often necessary in order to increase the life expectation of patients treated for tumors. Stem cell transplantation seems to be the right support for chemotherapy, and so far, thousands of people have benefited from the regenerative [...]

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Human stem cells represent cellular formations that have not assumed a body function yet; they are present in embryonic tissues when the body is developing, and new groups of specialized cells are necessary, but they have also been identified in mature adult tissues. It seems that the recovery from disease, injury or decay is only [...]

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Embryonic stem cell research has revealed the different potential in embryonic and adult stem cells. The number of limitations in terms of curative therapeutic applications is higher in the case of adult stem cells that cannot develop into a too large number of tissues. Moreover, the adult types are very rare, isolated and hard to [...]

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The constant blood crisis and the low number of donors that many medical units complain about could be solved if scientists manage to come up with a method of creating blood out of human stem cells. Trials and experiments have been made at various universities worldwide, and so far, scientists have managed to come up [...]

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Stem cell funding has become a priority for many research institutes, organizations and even governments, if we consider the efforts being made to come up with treatments for all sorts of irrecoverable diseases. The money goes to regenerative medicine institutes that commit to the research in the field of stem cell biology for the purpose [...]

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The adult stem cell category refers to undifferentiated cells that are present in all the body parts and tissues, for the only purpose of renewal and transformation into differentiated cells with a specialized role in the body functions. While an embryonic stem cell originates in the blastocyst, the initial cellular organization out of which the [...]

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