Watch the video : 4 part lecture on the science of stem cells
New bio-medical scientific studies have recently discovered that stem cells can be used medically to recreate live healthy tissue to replace damaged or diseased tissue. In other words, instead of repairing a damaged liver, shoulder joint, or heart, imagine if you could simply create a new liver, shoulder joint or heart!
That is why there is so much popular “Buzz” about stem cells these days.
Lecture : What are stem cells? – Part 3 of 4 – What do stem cells do?
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These mesenchymal stem cells with their magic soup and those little vesicles that release the soup into the body and into the organ that’s damaged, etc.
What are these cells?
What is the outcome of this soup of cytokines that is released?
Studies show that stem cells cause a massive reduction of inflammation.
Lecture : What are stem cells? – Part 2 of 4 – Where do they come from?
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There are three sources of stem cells.
Lecture : What are stem cells? – Part 1 of 4 – Why are stem cells important?
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Hello everyone, I am Asher Milgrom, PhD, the CEO and Chief Science Officer of AMA Regenerative Medicine & Skincare. My specialty is biomedical sciences and we specialize here in Integrative Medicine and Regenerative Medicine.
We are privileged to be doing all sorts of very interesting research with stem cells and that’s the subject of this lecture.
First things first…. Embryonic stem cells that are used for medical treatments are NOT part of a developing fetus or baby.
Rather these cells are derived from other embryonic tissues such as placenta, umbilical cord, and amniotic fluid. These tissues are routinely collected during the birth of a baby and destroyed (incinerated) immediately following the birth.
From a clinical perspective, fetal stem cells are NOT suitable for any therapeutic use, because they are very unstable and not safe for transplanting into patients.
Every cell in our body comes from the original stem cells that comprised the embryo we once were.
Everything starts with a sperm and egg, which fertilize each other by merging into a single cell thereby becoming the first stem cell from which our entire body will be created. At that point the merged cell starts dividing into 2 cells, then 4, 8, 16, 32 cells etc.
In these early stages, every one of these cells can become any cell in the human body.
Medical science has known for decades that stem cells can be found in almost all human tissues and organs and that they are critical participants in the process of how human bodies repair themselves and stay healthy. However, a new chapter was opened when scientists discovered that stem cells can be found in human embryos.
This breakthrough became even more important when laboratory experiments proved that stem cells can be grown in a laboratory, and can potentially be used to develop treatments for different medical conditions.
