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In a pioneering “off-the-shelf ” drug treatment in place of a surgical procedure, Maruti Hospital on Tuesday inaugurated its Regenerative Medicine Department by administering stem cell therapy for a diabetic patient who lost four toes on both feet. ...
Stem Cell Therapy An increasing number of scientists are suggesting that diabetes could one day be cured using stem cell therapy. Stem cells are implanted into the patient and over the course of a few months they mature into insulin producing stem cells. ...
One major challenge for implementing stem cell treatment in the clinics, is the interdisciplinary work required by stem cell biologists and medical doctors as well as the state-of-the-art equipment needed at public hospitals to successfully translate the basic stem cell knowledge ...
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Jeanne Loring of the Scripps Research Institute warned of the dangers of unregulated stem cell treatments and the likelihood of their proliferation given the lack of enforceability of patents and the ease with which it’s becoming to perform biotechnology methods such as genome reprogramming (as an aside, she mentioned that she’s now ...