Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Evaluating stem cell
therapy
- Although embryonic stem cells are totipotent, adult stem cells have the
advantage that they could be obtained from a person with diabetes to treat
his or her own disorder without the problem of genetic incompatibility
- The therapy, known as autologus haematopoietic stem cell transplantation,
has been shown to have benefits to people with a range of autoimmune
diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Crohns diesease
- Although stem cells have the potential to treat a wide range of human disorders,
there is still a long way to go before they can widely used to treat patients.
Doctors need to be able to produce stem cells that; make sufficient cells of th
desired cell types, are accepted by a fully integrated into the recipients tissue,
function well for the whole life of the recipient, cause no harm to the recipient