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Stem Cells

Stem cell therapies show promise for treating currently incurable diseases. A recent study found stem cell therapy can shrink enlarged hearts by 25%, more than current therapies. Stem cells have the ability to develop into new tissues and replace damaged organs. While some stem cell therapies exist, most are still experimental or costly. Researchers are working to develop more effective and less invasive stem cell therapies that use a patient's own cells to avoid rejection. Future possibilities include manipulating a patient's adult stem cells to create new tissue for transplant or using drugs to direct stem cell repair within the body without surgery. The stem cell therapy market is projected to grow as therapies in clinical trials have shown promising results for conditions like brain damage, cancer, and more.

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Stem Cells

Stem cell therapies show promise for treating currently incurable diseases. A recent study found stem cell therapy can shrink enlarged hearts by 25%, more than current therapies. Stem cells have the ability to develop into new tissues and replace damaged organs. While some stem cell therapies exist, most are still experimental or costly. Researchers are working to develop more effective and less invasive stem cell therapies that use a patient's own cells to avoid rejection. Future possibilities include manipulating a patient's adult stem cells to create new tissue for transplant or using drugs to direct stem cell repair within the body without surgery. The stem cell therapy market is projected to grow as therapies in clinical trials have shown promising results for conditions like brain damage, cancer, and more.

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Future of stem cell treatment

Stem cell therapies are a source of tremendous hope to the countless individuals suffering from currently incurable, long term diseases .These are designed to cure patients and improve the quality of life of individuals suffering from the diseases. Just a few days ago, the results of a study conducted by the University of Miami showed that stem cell therapy can shrink enlarged hearts by up to 25 percent. Researchers used the patients own bone marrow cells to replace heart scar tissue, which is caused by heart attacks and results in an enlarged heart. In comparison, current therapies for this condition have only been able to reduce size by about 5 percent. Stem cells are the tools central to this unprecedented approach to therapy. They are cells with the intrinsic ability to develop into a diversity of new tissues and thereby replace or repair the diseased, damaged or dysfunctional organs in the patient. The only source of human stem cells is the human body itself foetuses, embryos or umbilical cord. Cells of the human embryo have the inherent ability to give rise to all cell types in humans. A number of stem cell therapies exist, but most are at experimental stages or costly. What does the future hold for stem cell therapies? Researchers all over the world are working to design stem cell therapies that are more effective, are able to reduce the invasiveness and the risk to patients. Today's stem cell therapies usually rely on cells that are donated by another person. This raises the possibility of donor cell rejection by the patient's immune system. In the future, it may be possible for a person to use a sample of his or her own stem cells to regenerate tissue, which would reduce or even eliminate the danger of rejection. How might this be done? Some possibilities include: Collecting healthy adult stem cells from a patient and manipulating them in the laboratory to create new tissue. The tissue would be re-transplanted back into the patient's body, where it would work to restore a lost function. Therapeutic cloning might enable the creation of embryonic stem cells that are genetically identical to the patient. One less invasive way to achieve this goal would be to manipulate existing stem cells within the body to perform therapeutic tasks. For example, scientists might design a drug that would direct a certain type of stem cell to restore a lost function inside the patient's body. This approach would eliminate the need for invasive surgical procedures to harvest and transplant stem cells. The stem cell therapy market appears to have a bright future and recent stem cell therapies in clinical trials have shown promising results. The potential areas in which this treatment can be beneficial include: Brain damage ,Cancer, Spinal, Heart, Haematopoiesis (blood cell formation),Baldness, Missing, Deafness, Blindness and vision impairment, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Graft vs. host disease and Crohn's disease, Neural and behavioral birth defects, Diabetes, Orthopaedics, Wound healing, Infertility and many more disorders.

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