All Entries in the "Stem Cells" Category
Embryonic Stem Cells
Embryonic stem cells are collected from human and animal embryos. They are extracted from microscopic balls of cells that represent the initial stage of embryo formation. Such embryonic stem cells come from eggs fertilized artificially for various couples, but usually not all of them are necessary for the implantation. Such biological material can be [...]
Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Embryonic stem cell research has revealed the different potential in embryonic and adult stem cells. 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 them in cultures make [...]
Embryo Stem Cell
From the many experimental studies conducted at present, embryo stem cell research is definitely one of the most controversial. 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 [...]
Adult Stem Cell
Few people know that almost all the body tissues contain undifferentiated cells or adult stem cell formations necessary for the tissue and organ regeneration in case of injury or disease damage. While an embryonic stem cell grows in the blastocyst, the initial cellular organization out of which the embryo evolves, scientists still don’t know anything [...]
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 [...]
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 seems to be the right support for chemotherapy, and so far, thousands of people have benefited from the regenerative advantages of such transplant therapy. Before any transplant, one needs to [...]
Stem Cell Transplantation
Cancer patients who are subject to chemotherapy treatments usually need stem cell transplantation to regenerate blood. The drugs used for tumor reduction affect body cellular groups with a rapid growth rate, and blood cells are among the first to fall victim to the chemical impact. The problem comes from the fact that chemotherapy triggers the [...]
Stem Cell Transplant
By stem cell transplant, doctors refer to the transfer of stem cells into the body of a patient undergoing anti-cancer treatment such as chemotherapy. The thing is that the powerful chemo-drugs used for reducing tumors also destroy the cells responsible for blood regeneration. Therefore, the stem cell transplant will be the only way to support [...]
Stem Cell Therapy
Stem cell therapy has grown from the huge potential identified in some body cells to develop specific functions depending on the tissue or organ where they are located. This process of conversion from unspecialized to specialized is known as differentiation or specialization. Most of the time, stem cell transplantation serves for regenerative medicine in the [...]
Stem Cell Research
There is a huge morality question concerning the use of human embryos for stem cell research that claims their life. On the other hand, stem cell research gives hopes to the medical world about the possibility to cure diseases like Alzheimer, Parkinson’s, heart attacks, diabetes, strokes and many others. Yet, lots of people who protest [...]
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 serving for research purposes. In order to create embryonic stem cell lines, conditions [...]
Stem Cell Funding
Lots of institutes, organizations and universities are confronted with the difficult issue of raising money or getting stem cell funding to continue their research. The money goes to regenerative medicine institutes that commit to the research in the field of stem cell biology for the purpose of developing cures and viable therapies for the future. [...]
Stem Cell Cures
Due to the great medical potential specific to stem cells, many therapies rely on their use for the treatment of various diseases and injuries. So far, tests have proved that stem cell cures are the solution for life-claiming injuries and diseases. The working principle on which the use of stem cell cures relies, comes from [...]
Stem Cell Blood
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 research institutes worldwide, and so far, scientists have managed to come [...]
Human Stem Cells
Human stem cells represent cellular formations without a determined body function; they are present in embryonic tissues as a normal stage of development when more groups of specialized cells become necessary, but they have also been identified in mature adult tissues. No recovery from disease, injury or decay would be possible without these human stem [...]