Stem Cells in Baby Teeth or Wisdom Teeth to Grow New Teeth

Kids losing baby teeth, or having a wisdom tooth extracted? Got liquid nitrogen? Cool article on growing new adult teeth from stem cells in baby teeth.

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From the article here: Using stem cells to grow new teeth

"Regenerating a whole tooth is no less complicated than rebuilding a whole heart, says Songtao Shi of the University of Southern California, who heads a team working on creating such a tooth.

Not only do you have to create smart tissue (nerves), strong tissue (ligaments) and soft tissue (pulp), you've got to build enamel -- by far the hardest structural element in the body. And you have to have openings for blood vessels and nerves. And you have to make the whole thing stick together. And you have to anchor it in bone. And then you have to make the entire arrangement last a lifetime in the juicy stew of bacteria that is your mouth.

It's a nuisance, but researchers are closing in on it. In fact, they think the tooth will probably be the first complex organ to be completely regenerated from stem cells. In part this is because teeth are easily accessible -- say ahhhhh. So are adult stem cells, found abundantly in both wisdom and baby teeth -- no embryos required, and your immune system won't reject your own cells."

Stem Cell Treatment May "Cure" Diabetes

Stem Cell Treatment May "Cure" Diabetes:

"'The beauty of the treatment protocol used here is that the patient's own bone marrow stem cells were used, guaranteeing a perfect match,' Weldon said. 'Should these patients remain insulin-free, the treatment is likely to be particularly useful for those suffering from Juvenile Diabetes who have difficultly in maintaining proper insulin levels, as well as for those who have difficulty accessing appropriate health care,' he said."

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I'm wondering how someone who has "difficulty accessing appropriate health care" will benefit from this treatment? Isn't this considered appropriate health care? Or if Weldon means those who can't afford a doctor's visit & insulin? If so how would they afford this?

Anyway, the fact that using one's own stem cells makes such a profouund difference is good news.

Tracy

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Intravenous stem cells therapy may benefit heart attack patients

Intravenous stem cells therapy may benefit heart attack patients: "Washington, Mar 28 (ANI):

Heart attack patients who received an new intravenous adult stem cell therapy, Provacel, experienced a lower number of adverse events, such as cardiac arrhythmias, and had significant improvements in heart, lung and global function compared to those who received a placebo, according to a six-month Phase I study data of the trial conducted by Rush Medical Centre.

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Adult stem cells are designed by nature to perform tissue repair in a mature adult. It is believed that these cells can be used in patients unrelated to the donor, without rejection, eliminating the need for donor matching and recipient immune suppression. Once transplanted, the cells promote healing of damaged or diseased tissues.

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'We were confident in the safety profile given our previous experience using the intravenous form of these stem cells to treat other diseases in later stage clinical trials. However, we did not expect to see the across-the-board clinical improvement observed in patients at this early stage of testing,' Mills added. (ANI) "


Having more stem cells circulating in the blood is beneficial to heart attack patients. That's what this short article is saying. The increase in stem cells for these patients came from another person. We all have our own stem cells, even someone who just had a heart attack.

Call me squeemish but I prefer the idea of releasing my own stem cells from my own bone marrow, to having someone else's added to my blood stream. Though this is wonderful, what if it doesn't have to be a complicated, expensive procedure? What if anyone who wanted to could release more of their own stem cells, every day? See my sig.

Tracy

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Daily Kos: Mainstream Issue of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Daily Kos: Mainstream Issue of Embryonic Stem Cell Research:

Snipped from the article:

"I can just hear the legislators in their speeches on the House or Senate floor saying: 'Well, I just had a group of wheelchair users wheel through my office, and they NEVER even brought up the Stem Cell Research issue,......so I don't think they feel it's that important,.......let's just stick with the federal funding of umbilical cord blood stem cells, and the 'non-destructive' stem cell research that the federal government already funds'."

If you support embryonic stem cell research, please make your voice heard. Funding is stalled because of a few powerful people who oppose it for religious reasons. So many people think it is a good idea but never let their legislators know. Your voice matters.

Just let them know you'd like them to vote for funding embryonic stem cell research. Easy-peasy.

Tracy


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Stem cells taken from amniotic fluid and the risk of spontaneous abortion from amnio

Star-Telegram 02/11/2007 No quarter, little change: "Last month, researchers reported that stem cells drawn from the amniotic fluid of pregnant women have many of the properties of embryonic stem cells, but cautioned that the cells wouldn't necessarily replace embryonic cells."

There is something the scientists are leaving out when they talk of stem cells taken from amniotic fluid. I learned about this when I was pregnant with my first child and was considering amnio.

Critics of embryonic stem cell research should be appalled at taking stem cells from amniotic fluid, because the risk of spontaeous abortion from amnio is as high as 1 in 200. By saying this is better (and saying "commonly drawn" as though every pregnant woman needs/gets amnio) they are saying it's better to risk a gestating fetus than some cells in a petri dish or test tube that have the potential to become a fetus.

Here's something I found online, for anyone who doesn't know the risks of amnio:
http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/681_1164.asp

A clip from the article:

>>Is amniocentesis safe?Millions of women have had prenatal diagnosis by amniocentesis. In 1976, after careful study, the National Institutes of Health reported that it found midtrimester amniocentesis for prenatal diagnosis to be safe. However, amniocentesis does pose a slight risk of miscarriage. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the rate of miscarriage is between one in 400 and one in 200 procedures.

The procedure also carries an extremely low risk of uterine infection (less than one in 1,000), which can cause miscarriage. Studies suggest that the risk of miscarriage following first-trimester amniocentesis may be three times higher than the risk after second-trimester amniocentesis. A 1998 Canadian study found the risk of miscarriage was 2.6 percent after early amniocentesis, compared to 0.8 percent after second-trimester amniocentesis.

The study also found a striking increase in the risk of a foot deformity called clubfoot after early amniocentesis. The risk of clubfoot was increased ten-fold after early amniocentesis (1.3 percent vs. 0.1 percent or 1 in 1,000 following second-trimester amniocentesis). The incidence of clubfoot following second-trimester amniocentesis does not differ from that seen in all U.S. babies.

Based upon this and other studies, doctors are rethinking the role of early amniocentesis, and many believe that if first-trimester prenatal testing is necessary, chorionic villus sampling appears safer than early amniocentesis.<<

Tracy
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