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A couple days ago, I posted on the Australian scientists who took repair stem cells from human noses and then implanted the repair stem cells into rats which helped their Parkinson's. Well, today, Dr. David Prentice, one of the United States' leading experts on stem cell research weighs in on that study:
Prentice says the press has paid little attention to the Australian study or the six other stories that have come out in the past few days about adult stem cells.
"They seem just so focused on embryonic," he says of the media. "It might be ideological, it might be just ignorance; but when it comes to actually thinking of the patients first, the bottom line is still adult stem cells. Embryonic [cells] all of the ethical problems aside, and those are huge have tremendous practical problems ... with tumors, with transplant rejection, with getting the cells to function the way you want them to" Prentice contends.
But the FRC spokesman notes adult stem-cell research simply involves taking "normal repair cells" and convincing them to work on a different "repair problem" within the body. Hey Dr. Prentice! You are starting to sound like me. Don't get too depressed Dr. Prentice, at least I didn't say you looked like me :).
But seriously folks- I see Dr. Prentice (and many other leading doctors/scientists) are starting to use this terminology such as describing adult stem cells as repair stem cells because that is what adult stem cells are-- repair cells that fix damage in the body. Hopefully, using this terminology will help educate the public more about the differences between adult (repair) stem cells and embryonic stem cells.
Click here to read more on Dr. Prentice and the Parkinson's study