Article For Stem Cell Research Report/Nick Huber

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/02/health/main6735628.shtml

Stem Cell Research Article Summary
Nick Huber
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The article describes how in 2010 a patient who had broken his ankle, and would not heal after many surgeries, but was healed after he was injected with Adult Stem Cells from his own bone marrow. Dr. Thomas Einhorn was the doctor who instituted the idea to use this treatment on this patient because of an article he had read from France about success in use of this treatment using Adult Stem Cells. It tells of how it is not similar to embryonic stem cells because these stems cells usually come from the bone marrow in our bodies, and how over two dozen studies for other treatments have been conducted using these stem cells which had a successful outcome in all treatments which shows that there is a wide range of conditions that Adult Stem Cells could treat. This treatment has also helped researchers produce beating hearts, ears and bladders which is what provoked the government to invest, which they have and still are today, hundreds of millions of dollars in this form of research. Researchers have said that they are going to study this form of treatment on people who suffer from heart attacks, sclerosis, and diabetes. They had also stated that they were successfully able to restore sight to a man who lost his vision to a chemical accident. Some doctors and professors are calling this a life saving treatment because some of the major achievements that Adult Stem Cells have gotten are that these stem cells have helped hundreds to thousands of people overcome things such as leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood conditions. For Example, using Adult Stem Cells were tested on a patient who suffered from multiple and frequent heart attacks, but when injected with stem cells it showed to pump blood through the arteries, even though this isn’t something that has proven to stop all other heart attacks but extensive and expensive surgery was not needed to treat the patient, just a simple and relatively cheap injection. Many doctors have seen this as a life saving and life changing treatment and they hope that in a short few years this will be a form of treatment for other diseases because even now using Adult Stem Cells have cured over 70 different diseases.