While every day passes by, we get to know about new and new treatments introduced by scientists to resolve different problems related to people’s health. Doctors and scientists are into it and work all the time to get new ways of treatment for people.
Dr. David Greene calls stem cells one of the new treatments for most chronic diseases. This kind of new therapy has gained a lot of attention all over the globe from scientists.
So what is basically stem cell treatment or therapy? And what is the actual role of stem cell treatment in our lives? So let’s get to know about it.
Role of Stem Cells in the Body
The basic idea behind this term is to bring in new cells cultivated from a laboratory to replace damaged or ill cells in the body. For example, stem cells can be guided into becoming specific cells used to regenerate and repair diseased or damaged tissues in people.
Our hope is to alter the course of care for these patients in ways that improve their lives,” says Dr. David Greene Arizona.” Stem cell therapy involves all the immature cells, and they can grow and develop into other types of cells present in the body.
Some bone, skin, corneal (eye) injuries and diseases can be treated by grafting or implanting tissues, and the healing process relies on stem cells within this implanted tissue. These days such procedures are getting accepted widely as safe and effective by the medical community.
However, all other applications of stem cells are yet to be proven in clinical trials and should be considered highly experimental. Nevertheless, using this technique, almost all the diseases which are considered almost incurable will be treated.
Scientists are exploring the different roles tissue-specific stem cells might play in healing, understanding that these stem cells have specific and limited capabilities. For example, tissue-specific stem cells can only generate the other cell types found in the tissues where they live without manipulation in the lab.
For example, the blood-forming (hematopoietic) stem cells found in bone marrow regenerate the cells in the blood, while neural stem cells in the brain make brain cells. A hematopoietic stem cell won’t spontaneously make a brain cell and vice versa. Thus, it is unlikely that a single cell type can be used to treat a multitude of unrelated diseases involving different tissues or organs.
As per Dr. David Greene, apart from healing a number of health diseases such as tissue and muscle injury, diabetes, with every passing year, more diseases and conditions are being identified to be treated by using these cells. Thus, it may lead to a medical revolution in the future
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