Stem cells have the characteristics that make them apt for therapy for a snowballing number of diseases and disorders. First, stem cells have the ability to generate more cells of the same kind. Secondly, stem cells can develop into specialized cells that are suitable to implement a particular function, such as in the skin, muscle or bone. Stroke patients can benefit greatly by stroke stem cell treatment.
The existing state of stem cell research
There are some nations that offer treatments using but in such treatments only ASCs derived from the patient's body are used (autograft). When likely, autografts are preferred as they get rid of the risk of rejection by the receiver's body. There is promising research going on in the arena of SCs to
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Though the arena of ASCs is not tarnished by controversies, the issue with them is also that they are often existent only in minuscule quantities, are challenging to isolate and sanitize and their numbers might decline with age, as per a primer by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). At this stage, much remains mysterious about the potential of ESCs. But, going by the success in the arena of animal testing, it might very well turn out that ESCs could offer solutions to voluminous ailments in humans. The answer to the potential advantages of ESC lies in research. To comprehend the benefits of embryonic stem cells or any kind of stem cells for that matter, and to discern possible treatments in humans, several lines of research need to be tracked concurrently. Only research can demonstrate if ASCs are better over ESCs for treating human diseases or vice versa. It might also materialize that ASCs offer good treatments for some ailments, while ESCs are better for treating