All Entries in the "Stem Cells" Category
Embryonic Stem Cells
Embryonic stem cells are collected from human and animal embryos. Their origin is in the cellular balls called blastocysts that represent the first stage of development before the growth of a fetus. The main source is from eggs fertilized in vitro and don’t get transferred to a woman’s womb. The genetic matter becomes available [...]
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
A different medical potential has been identified between embryonic and adult stem cells after intensive embryonic stem cell research. There is a larger number of limitations identified for adult stem cells because they allow for fewer therapeutic applications than stem cells extracted from embryos. Moreover, the rarity, the collection difficulty and the challenge of growing [...]
Embryo Stem Cell
Embryo stem cell research represents one of the most controversial issues in exploratory studies at present. Stem cells have to be collected from live embryos, a process during which the parenting cells die: this is the reason why so many pro-lifers speak of homicide. Yet, the benefit of such research is that scientists seem to [...]
Adult Stem Cell
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 grows in the blastocyst, the initial cellular organization out of which the [...]
Stem Cells
The big discoveries related to stem cells have issued a real tsunami wave of debates. 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 division over and over [...]
Stem Cell Transplants
Stem cell transplants are a supportive treatment adjacent to chemotherapy, since anti-cancer drugs usually destroy the blood-formating cells in the bone marrow. Stem cell transplantation thus represents the major treatment solution for thousands of people who need such a form of regenerative therapy. There are several steps that need to be taken before the stem [...]
Stem Cell Transplantation
Cancer patients who are subject to chemotherapy treatments usually need stem cell transplantation to regenerate blood. All the medication used to destroy the cancer cells affect all the body cells that have a high division rate, which includes bone marrow, hair follicles and digestive linings. The problem is that chemotherapy triggers the blood’s incapacity to [...]
Stem Cell Transplant
A stem cell transplant is a medical procedure consisting of the transfer of stem cells into the system of a cancer patient who is undergoing chemotherapy. The drugs used for the reduction of tumors damage the blood generation cells as well. Therefore, depending on the intensity of the cancer treatment and the chemotherapy cycles, doctors [...]
Stem Cell Therapy
Stem cell therapy relies on the use of cells that have not received a function in the body yet and which have a large if not unlimited potential of regeneration and evolution into cells with specialized tasks. The transformation of stem cells into body functional cells is known as specialization or differentiation, and it represents [...]
Stem Cell Research
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 [...]
Stem Cell Lines
One of the major objectives for the division of stem cells in cultures is the creation of stem cell lines, that are in fact families developing from a determined parent group. Most of the time, stem cell lines develop in pre-created environments and serve for research purposes. In order to create embryonic stem cell lines, [...]
Stem Cell Funding
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 [...]
Stem Cell Cures
Due to the immense medical potential specific to stem cells, many therapies have high treatment hopes and expectations. In many experts’ opinion, stem cell cures have the huge potential of stopping devastating illnesses that claim people’s life after intense suffering. The working principle on which the use of stem cell cures relies, comes from the [...]
Stem Cell Blood
If it was possible for scientists to create blood by means of human stem cells, it would be the end of the blood crisis that seems to affect medical facilities all over the world. Experiments and trials have been conducted at various research institutes worldwide, and so far, only an immature stem cell blood version [...]
Human Stem Cells
Human stem cells consist of cellular formations without a determined body function; they first grow in embryonic tissues when the body is developing, and more groups of specialized cells become necessary, but they happen to be part of adult tissues as well. It seems that the recovery from disease, injury or decay is only possible [...]