ADULT STEM CELL = ASC
- SOURCE/DERIVED FROM•comes from blood, umbilical cords, bone marrow, placenta fat tissue, muscle, nasal neurological, breast milk, menstruation, dental pulp, lungs (new source!) and many more
- PURPOSE IN BODY•they are the body’s natural healing cells
- OBSTACLES+SIDE EFFECTS•~zero problems (virtually zero side effects)
- TREATMENT HISTORY•used in bone marrow transplants to treat cancer for 40 years
- TREATMENT HISTORY•can currently treat 130+ diseases safely and effectively (CP, MS, Autism, Diabetes, CHF, PAD, etc)
EMBRYONIC STEM CELL = ESC
- SOURCE/DERIVED FROM•comes from embryos
- PURPOSE IN BODY•split for 7 weeks until you have a fetus the size of a thumbnail
- OBSTACLES+SIDE EFFECTS•they create cysts and tumors, rejection requires immunosuppressive drugs for the ill patient, they carry the genetic anomalies of the donor, etc
- TREATMENT HISTORY•can currently treat zero diseases, probably need to cure cancer first to use them
INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL = iPSC (“Embryonic Stem Cell Lite”)
- SOURCE/DERIVED FROM•comes from regular adult cells like skin cells that are then transformed by scientists into stem cells
- PURPOSE IN BODY•to be a skin cell or other tissue
- OBSTACLES+SIDE EFFECTS•they create cysts and tumors, rejection requires immunosuppressive drugs for the ill patient, they carry the genetic anomalies of the donor…
- TREATMENT HISTORY•no treatments to date, probably need to cure cancer first to use them
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