In this episode of Breakthrough Medicine, experts from the University of Miami’s Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Therapy Institute (ISCI) use adult stem cells to repair organs and save lives.

EmCell clinic is a medical center founded in 1994. In all these years, we treated thousands of patients from different countries and performed more than 6000 transplantations of fetal stem cells. The treatment methods developed and used in the clinic helped to save and prolong our patients’ lives, restore different organs and tissues and achieve positive results in treating diseases and conditions that were considered incurable.
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The simple term “stem cell” actually refers to many different types of cells. The tissue-specific stem cells, or adult stem cells, replenish tissues throughout our lives. Embryonic stem cells exist only briefly in early development before tissues begin to form. Irv Weissman discovered the first tissue stem cells and has helped develop new treatments for disease based on these cells. Weissman has CIRM grant to push embryonic stem cells to form blood and heart muscle stem cells, which could be powerful tools for treating diseases of the heart or blood system. Weissman is Director of the Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Institute, Virginia & DK Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research, and Professor of Developmental Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

When Barry Goudy found out he had multiple sclerosis he feared the worst. Doctors told him he might lose his eye sight and the ability to walk. As a very active husband, father and hockey coach, Barry couldn’t think of anything worse than losing his ability to get around. But then he learned of a new way to treat MS with a stem cell transplant. The transplant worked and today he’s living proof of the miracles that can come from Adult Stem Cell Research.

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Stem Cell Research Curriculum Field Testing


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Stem Cell Research Curriculum Field Testing


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For instance, neural cells in the brain and spinal cord that have been damaged can be replaced by stem cells. In the treatment of cancer, cells partially damaged by radiation or chemotherapy can be replaced with new healthy stem cells that adapt to the affected area, whether it be part of the brain, heart, liver, lungs, or wherever. Dead cells of almost any kind, no matter the type of injury or disease, can be replaced with new healthy cells thanks to the amazing flexibility of stem cells.

Interview with a Texas Ranger suffering from multiple sclerosis that was treated with adult stem cells by www.cellmedicine.com

MDA Vice President of Research Sanjay Bidichandani explains the promising research being done in neuromuscular disease research using adult stem cells.

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