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Articles by Patrick Dixon

"Bone marrow and other tissues could repair your brain, spinal cord and heart and cure diabetes or old-age blindness. Adult stem cells promise investor returns while embryonic stem cells and therapeutic cloning raise major ethical, legal, and image problems."
"Another study has shown that bone marrow stem cells from an adult human can form healthy brain tissue. This should not surprise us: all adult stem cells of course contain all the genetic code needed to produce an entire clone of the adult and so are well able, in theory, to produce whatever tissues or organs are needed."

Future of Stem Cell Research: Rapid Progress

"Harvard Medical School is another center of astonishing progress in adult stem cells. Trials have shown partially restored sight in animals with retinal damage. Clinical trials are expected within five years, using adult stem cells as a treatment to cure blindness caused by macular degeneration - old-age blindness and the commonest cause of sight- loss in America. Within 10 years it is hoped that people will be able to be treated routinely with their own stem cells in a clinic using a two-hour process."

Do stem cells really repair tissue?

For several years there has been a curious and very confusing debate in editorials of publications like the New England Journal of Medicine about whether adult stem cells actually regenerate tissue or not.
The debate centers on technical questions and semantics, rather than the reality of results.

Take for example heart repair. We know that bone marrow cells can land up in a damaged heart and when present, the heart is repaired. It is hard to be certain what proportion of this remarkable process is due to stimulants released locally by bone marrow cells, or by the bone marrow cells actually differentiating into heart tissue.

It remains a confusing picture, not the least because in the lab, cells seem to change character profoundly, but in clinical trials it appears the effects of many stem cells are stimulatory. But who cares? As a clinician I am delighted if injecting your bone marrow cells into your back means that you are walking around 3 months after a terrible injury to your spine instead of being in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. I am not so concerned with exactly how it all works, and nor will you be.

Stem Cell Heart Cure to Be Tested

Doctors have launched a trial to test whether heart disease can be treated using a patient's own stem cells.
The study, at Barts and the London NHS Trust, is funded by a charity set up by a man who underwent stem cell treatment for his heart condition in Germany.

The aim will be to determine whether adult stem cells taken from bone marrow can repair damaged heart muscle. In total, 700 patients will take part in the study, which will test three different forms of stem cell therapy.

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Recent Breakthrough

There has been a recent breakthrough in research which supports the release of the stem cells contained within our own bone marrow into our blood stream. These stem cells once released from OUR bone marrow can then migrate to and repair any tissue of the body - i.e. liver, heart, blood cell, bone, skin, nervous etc.
We have recently discovered the following information and are now using stem cell nutrition in our own daily regime. The possibilities of our own adult stem cells (contained within our own body) repairing tissue as we age is quite exciting to us!

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