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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What is the procedure for recovering umbilical cord stem cells for research?

Does anyone know the process for recovering umbilical cord stem cells for transplantation? I was curious.

Newborn infants no longer need their umbilical cords, so they have traditionally been discarded as a by-product of the birth process. In recent years, however, the multipotent-stem-cell-rich blood found in the umbilical cord has proven useful in treating the same types of health problems as those treated using bone marrow stem cells and PBSCs.

While most blood stem cells reside in the bone marrow, a small number are present in the bloodstream. These multipotent peripheral blood stem cells, or PBSCs, can be used just like bone marrow stem cells to treat leukemia, other cancers and various blood disorders. Since they can be obtained from drawn blood, PBSCs are easier to collect than bone marrow stem cells, which must be extracted from within bones.

Umbilical cord blood stem cell transplants are less prone to rejection than either bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells. This is probably because the cells have not yet developed the features that can be recognized and attacked by the recipient's immune system. Also, because umbilical cord blood lacks well-developed immune cells, there is less chance that the transplanted cells will attack the recipient's body, a problem called graft versus host disease.

Both the versatility and availability of umbilical cord blood stem cells makes them a potent resource for transplant therapies.

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Can you suggest a website which has comparison between umbilical cord stem cells and adult stem cells?

Preferably tabulated.

Umblical VS Adult stem cells - at http://www.wiseorb.com/articles-review- ... ges%2E.htm

Where do they come from? and any other info you can get on them. pleaseeeee

Cord blood is the blood in the umbilical cord and after birth. It is taken after a live healthy birth only, when it is no longer a living part of mom or baby. There is no ethical issues with cord blood because it must be removed. If the umbilical cord is not shut, or the after birth not devlivered, it will actually cause massive problems.

Cord blood has been used to do several different things, But I used cord blood stem cells in my hematopoetic stem cell transplant (hematopoetic means blood... its a fancy term for a bone marrow transplant, but with a slightly broader meaning.) I had no matches in the marrow registry because I have a rare tissue type. Cord blood does not have to be matched as closesly as adult marrow or peripheral blood stem cells (a type of white blood cell in the circulating blood). And since I am an adult, I had to use 2 units of cord blood in my transplant (it is still in trials, I am a part of the clinical trials on this). One birth, one unit, which means I had two different donors for my transplant.
http://www.marrow.org is the National Marrow Donors Program which can give more info on stem cell transplants and the sources of stem cells used