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Cancer stem cells are the key to how cancer originates and the key to successful therapy. This lecture will address what cancer stem cells are, how they maintain themselves, and why they may be resistant to some current treatments. Dr. Weissman will also This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. ’s standard return policy will apply.

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Recent scientific breakthroughs, celebrity patient advocates, and conflicting religious beliefs have come together to bring the state of stem cell research?specifically embryonic stem cell research?into the political crosshairs. President Bush?s watershed policy statement allows federal funding for …
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Itâ??s 2:00 am and your awake. Between your soon to be bundle of joy kicking, and the heartburn (A sign of a head full of hair!) you have found yourself here. Now that youâ??re here why donâ??t we discuss Stem Cells, and the promise they can hold for the babyâ??s and your familyâ??s future.
Unlike other kinds of cells found in the body, stem cells are cells that have the unique ability to divide, and renewing themselves over long periods of time. This ability separates them from other cells in the body like blood cells, brain cells, and muscle cells. These cells do not divide or renew themselves. When they are damaged or die they are gone forever.
Stem cells naturally reside in the adult body, and tend to generate the type of cells of the tissue in which they reside. An example would be bone marrow. Stem cells in bone marrow tend to generate into healthy blood cells. Bone marrow transplants have been used for years to help treat illnesses like Leukemia.
Stem cells are the building blocks of our tissues, blood, and immune system. Because of this they hold great promise for treatment of various illnesses and diseases. Today stem cells are used in the treatment of close to 80 diseases. New research is working on ways to use stem cells to treat all kinds of damaged cells. Parkinsonâ??s disease, Alzheimerâ??s disease, and spinal cord injury.
Whatâ??s this got to do with my baby? Plenty. When you give birth there are two things that could become of what was once considered â??Biohazardous Medical Wasteâ?
This waste is the placenta, the umbilical cord, and the blood contained in it. This former waste is an abundant source of YOUR babyâ??s stem cells. You can either waste these stem cells or you can BANK them.
Just like a savings account you can bank your babyâ??s stem cells into what commonly called a â??Blood Bankâ? or more recently a â??Stem Cell Bankâ?. Stem cells are removed from the cord blood in the laboratory and then cryogenically frozen for future use.
Until recently only the stem cells from the cord blood could be harvested. But now there is a new process for harvesting stem cells from the Placenta as well. This allows you to bank 2 units of stem cells not just one! These stem cells can be used to help your baby, a sibling, or another family member in the event of illness.
There are lots of critics who will say that this is not necessary. They will tell you that the research into treatments using stem cells are years away! Not so. Treatments for illness and disease using stem cells are being performed everyday. With the promise of several more in the future.
If you told my mom when I was born in 1964 that man would soon walk on the moon. That before my current mid life crisis that I would be able to get on the phone and drive all over the county on a phone in my ear, that I could take a TV dinner out of the freezer and be able to eat it hot in 5 minutes, that I could write an article and in 2 minutes people all over the world could be reading it translated into their language, that I could take her picture and look at it in a frame in under a minute, she would ask the doctor to give you a DRUG TEST! Of course they did not have those readily available in 1964 either. You get my point. The promise of the future is endless. So why not give your baby, and your family the most hope for their future as possible. Bank your baby’s placenta and cord blood stem cells. For more information please go to my web site to find out how easy this process is and how to do it.
 

Research on stem cells is leading scientists to investigate the possibility of cell-based therapies to treat disease, which is often referred to as regenerative medicine. Stem cells have two important characteristics that distinguish them from other types of cells. First, they are unspecialized cells that renew themselves for long periods of time through cell division. The second is that under certain physiologic or experimental conditions, they can be induced to become cells with special functions. There are two different sources of stem cells. Embryonic cells are derived from fetal tissue and are a source of great controversy. Adult stem cells (ASC), on the other hand, are found in normal people. ASC can renew themselves, and can differentiate to yield the major specialized cell types of the tissue or organ. Their primary role in a living organism is to maintain and repair the tissue in which they are found. Research on adult stem cells has recently generated a great deal of excitement. Scientists have found adult stem cells in many more tissues than they once thought possible. This finding has led scientists to ask whether adult stem cells could be used for transplants. In fact, adult blood forming stem cells from bone marrow have been used in transplants for 30 years. Certain kinds of adult stem cells seem to have the ability to differentiate into a number of different cell types, given the proper conditions. Bone marrow derived stem cells give rise to a variety of cell types: bone cells (osteocytes), cartilage cells (chondrocytes), fat cells (adipocytes), and other kinds of connective tissue cells such as those in tendons. According to information from the National Institutes of Health, “One of the fundamental properties of a stem cell is that it does not have any tissue-specific structures that allow it to perform specialized functions. Unlike muscle cells, blood cells, or nerve cells-which do not normally replicate themselves-stem cells may replicate many times. When cells replicate themselves many times over it is called proliferation. A starting population of stem cells that proliferates for many months in the laboratory can yield millions of cells. “ The process by which unspecialized stem cells become specialized cells is called differentiation. Adult stem cells typically generate the cell types of the tissue in which they reside. A blood-forming adult stem cell in the bone marrow, for example, normally gives rise to the various types of blood cells such as red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. Until recently, it had been thought that a blood-forming cell in the bone marrow could not give rise to the cells of a very different tissue. However, a number of experiments over the last several years have raised the possibility that stem cells from one tissue may be able to give rise to cell types of a completely different tissue. This phenomenon is referred to as “plasticity. “ Two research presentations this past year shore up the promise of stem cells in arthritis. First, research presented in April 2008 at the UK National Stem Cell Network Annual Science Meeting in Edinburgh offered hope that stem cells may be harnessed to repair the damaged cartilage that is one of the main symptoms of osteoarthritis. On a related note, scientists at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom have successfully identified stem cells within articular cartilage of adults, which have the ability to become chondrocytes, cells that make up cartilage. The team has even been able to identify the cells in people over 75 years of age. Lead researcher Professor Charlie Archer from the Cardiff School of Biosciences said: ”This research could have real benefits for arthritis sufferers and especially younger active patients with cartilage lesions that can progress to whole scale osteoarthritis. “ According to Dr. Nathan Wei, a rheumatologist and clinical investigator in Frederick, Maryland, “We are focusing our efforts on adult autologous stem cells (”autologous” meaning derived from the patient himself). These cells are present within a patient’s bone marrow. Once we obtain the stem cells, they need to be concentrated using special techniques in order to secure the number of stem cells per unit volume needed. We have been using this treatment, combined with growth factors obtained from other cells, for both osteoarthritis of the knee as well as the hip. Preliminary results using both subjective as well as objective measures show much promise. If these results are validated, the springtime of your life when it comes to weight-bearing joints may actually be 55-75. ”

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