Caution on Stem Cell Therapy

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Caution on Stem Cell Therapy

zogger

Sat Apr 12 20:04:43 -0700 2008

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Stem cell therapy is one of the hottest new trends in medical research, but experts who are pioneers in the field are cautioning about potential dangers. They are saying it is quite hard to maintain purity in the cells and that abnormalities develop easy, and also how they travel and "take" in the body is not always a sure thing.

..."Unanswered questions include whether the cell therapies may cause the growth of tumors, how the cells will travel through the body and whether patients will need to take immune-suppressing drugs in order for the therapies to work."...more, I thought they were already doing stem cell therapy in humans in some other nations, there

time and time again

Thomas Lord

Sat Apr 12 20:13:35 -0700 2008
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Time and time again I hear about biologists reaching such conclusions after years of contemplation and, pretty much, I wanna drill home to them the basic message of common sense that even a tiny bit of contemplation could have produced before any of the ramp-up to huge research projects started. Namely: "Gee, ya think?" In other dialects that's sometimes expressed "No S-, Sherlock!"

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Caution on Stem Cell Therapy

Mary Hamilton

Mon Apr 14 05:42:31 -0700 2008
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Only embryonic are unsafe; others are fulfilling their promises. ClinicalTrials.gov is recruiting for about 1000 studies (none for embryonic). Here's some videos showing what patient's own stem cells are doing today: ORGAN TRANSPLANT (CBS NEWS): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7eM3zOffI4 ; LIMB REGENERATION (CBS News): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGU5QE_sz8U&feature=related ;MS (Journal of American Medical Association JAMA report): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8SAgUB5hQs ;Type 1 DIABETES (JAMA Report): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKw4reOaDJw ; QUADRIPLEGIC WALKS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0NQHro8jBY And, for some of the autoimmune trials (lupus, crohn's, T1 Diabetes, etc.), insurance is already pitching in!