Even if adult stem cells are unable to generate the full spectrum of cell types found in the body, this very fact may turn out to be a strong scientific and medical advantage.
Adult stem cells are capable of self-renewal and give rise to daughter cells that are specialized to form the cell types found in the original body part.
The Icellator made possible the rapid recovery of 10s of millions of a patient's adult stem cells and endothelial progenitor cells at the"point of care.
Adult stem cells are throughout our body, including the blood-forming stem cells in our bone marrow, which we have been using as a form of stem-cell therapy for over 40 years.
Consequently, adult stem cells may be immensely useful for treatment of some human disease, but unable to make certain cell types required for treatment of other, unspecified, diseases.
When used together, the four genes, now dubbed Yamanaka factors, accomplished the unbelievablethey reprogrammed adult stem cells, making them convert back into embryonic stem cells.
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