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Child Receives Trachea Grown From Own Stem Cells
kkleiner writes "Doctors at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) along with colleagues at the University College London, the Royal Free Hospital, and Careggi University Hospital in Florence have successfully transplanted a trachea into a 10 year old boy using his own stem cells. A donor trachea was taken, stripped of its cells into a collagen-like scaffold, and then infused with the boy's stem cells. The trachea was surgically placed into the boy and allowed to develop in place. Because his own cells were used, there was little to no risk of rejection. This was the first time a child had received such a stem cell augmented transplant and the first time that a complete trachea had been used."
Why are we not funding this???
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The headline would be correct if we can synthesize the collagen molding and do away with the need for donor organ.
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holy crap.
good job, guys.
weinersmith
There's always some people who need surgery NOW and whether they get cancer in 2-5-10-20 years or not it's still a win. I'm all for medical testing and not rushing out unsafe procedures, but the reactions I see are mostly knee-jerk "it's STEM cells, omg you can't" not based on real research. In fact, they don't want the research done in the first place. Of course it's highly experimental medically, so was heart transplants. The first guy survived two weeks, but today we average 15 years. Research can prove or disprove (ok, don't get all philosophical on me) whether it helps medically, but it won't matter because most of the resistance is due to the fanatic anti-abortion crowd which equate embryonic stem cells with unborn babies. And if it's not embryonic, they'll pretend there's no difference because only blind rage will do.
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...adjusting "penis enlargement" spam filter to let emails with "stem cells" in the subject or body through...
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I have my son's stem cells in a bank. He's alive and healthy at 1.5 yrs old. Still, it's good to know that we have them.
They came from his cord blood. I'm pretty sure that can be considered embryonic, but I'm not a doctor or scientist. Just a happy parent.
Wait a second, stem cells that regenerate but will probably give you cancer, and nanoparticles that eat cancer for breakfast ...if my math works out correctly regeration + cancer - cancer = regeneration (or at least non-rejectable organ transfers). Can anyone say ultra combo?
Instead of using a donor and then stripping cells to get the collogen scaffold, next they should do 3-D printing of collogen into any shape they want. "Grown" organs in the future will not be grown, they will be built layer-by-layer.
It was about $2k initially w/ 12 mths interest free plans. Not super cheap but we felt it was worth it.
We used Cord Blood Registry at www.cordblood.com
It's $125/yr renewal but there are referral incentives.
Stop this BS guy... Come on, you speak of anti-abortion activists. Right, ANTI-ABORTION activists... It is not the use of stem cells they are fighting, and if you read their papers where they speak about stem cells, there is a context for it, and you know it as well... You can disagree with them as much as you want, but here, you are just distorting the truth (sure, it is an easy way to demonize and discredit them). BTW, they are sure happy with alternative paths making embryonic (and abortionist) stem cell research unneeded or useless.... It's just one of their best weapon and their best argument with indecisive people.