Does anybody know of any umbilical cord stem cell transplants successfully treating brain injuries? Does anybody know of any umbilical cord stem cell transplants successfully treating brain injuries?

Yes ... here are some articles and websites with info for you:

http://www.sfn.org/skins/main/pdf/brss/ ... injury.pdf

http://finance.comcast.net/indices/news ... S=33251287

http://askdrsears.com/html/1/T012700.asp

What is the best umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company?

Please only answer IF you or someone you know has banked their babies cord blood.

I would ask the hospital or check online! There are all kinds of adds in preganancy magazines!

What is umbilical cord stem cell?

In My Estimation, They Should Be Referred to as Pluripotent Cells, Not Stem Cells. I Don't Know the Particular Cell Type (but Have my Suspicions), I Have Only Harvested Cord Blood.

I can understand why someone is against embryonic stem cells (don't kill a life to make another's more pleasant). Yet why are people againt using something that used to be thrown in the trash can?
This is not about repoduction of the human. This is about curing a sickness of your family (which is possible now).

The fear of repoduction of the human with out any male female involvment
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Think about that one
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You want a baby you go to a Pick Your Baby shop and brows the catalog to see what is avaliable that you may like
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And the YOU is one a singular YOU no one else
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We then would be about as important as that one leaf on a tree in a forest
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Who cares if it dies just replace it with a duplicate to continue its position in society
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How would you like to live in a world as this
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Twilight Zone all over again
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Has there been success in curing Multiple Sclerosis with Umbilical Cord Stem Cells?

Does anyone know if storing your child's cord blood can cure Multiple Sclerosis? Have there been any successful cases of this?

Unfortunately, there is no cure as of yet, to include stem cell therapy. Although some stem cell therapy is effective, so far the trials have only yielded minor successes. They are using a treatment normally reserved for leukemia patients, and it is being trialed on MS patients due to anecdotal reports of people who got this leukemia treatment having their MS cured. It is essentially a "reset" of the immune system.

The treatment is autologous blood or bone marrow stem cell transplant. This is a fairly invasive procedure, first involving stimulating stem cell production, harvesting those stem cells, and then using chemotherapy to destroy all white blood cells in the body, which then have to regenerate following the transplant. Out of 85 patients being tracked, 18 patients (21%) showed EDSS improvement of greater than one point. 78% of SPMS sufferers showed zero disease progression at three years following the treatment. There is a risk in this treatment; out of the 106 known patients, seven have died. The potential risk will have to be tested completely.

Now, the question you posed was "can your child's cord blood cure MS" and the answer, today, is no. In any stem cell treatment that has actually worked, the patients own stem cells are encouraged to grow and then harvested. These are called "adult stem cells" and they have been shown today to effectively treat more than 70 diseases and conditions. Some of those are cord blood stem cells.

Note the difference is between adult stem cells (or non-embryonic stem cells) and embryonic stem cells, which are derived from embryos which are destroyed as part of the stem cell harvesting process.

Cord blood stem cells have so far effectively treated Cerebal Palsy, hepatitis, Hurler's Syndrome, paralysis, and have been able to regenerate the liver.

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