Stem Cells Seal The Deal in 2007
When you receive the Seal you will begin to understand the value of human life since you will have new Life. When you understand the value of life you will see just how precious the new stem cell discoveries are.
The year 2007 was a remarkable year for science since it was the year ordinary skin cells were "reprogrammed" into stem cells which acted just like embryonic stem cells, but without killing a living embryo.
Regardless of what happens before fertilization, it is the start of life. And when you become sealed you will discover how your life began even before fertilization and was predetermined from long ago.
But for an ordinary person fertilization is the beginning of life. So using fertilized embryos for science is really killing a very young life before it has a chance to grow into an elderly adult person.
But that is all over now. Because now ordinary cells have been turned into stem cells. A second study right on the heels of that first breakthrough successfully replaced diseased cells with healthy ones.
That was a study with mice that had sickle-cell disease injected into them. Ordinary and undiseased skin cells were taken from their tails and transformed into stem cells. They replaced the diseased cells in the body and the mice were healed of the disease.
That second breakthrough was also quite important and timely too. It showed the new technology could be used for the beneficial purposes of healing disease.
Now scientists are singing the praises of the new discoveries, and what they are saying reveals just how important they are. It is likened to alchemy, where lead was turned into gold.
Turning common substances into gold. That was something long searched for. And the discoveries are called the equivalent of the Wright brothers' airplane which was the first to fly. Another huge milestone for technology.
President Bush would not allow Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. That was a good thing seen in hindsight in the light of these discoveries. It was one of the reasons scientists discovered reprogramming.
Cloning is a similar procedure to reprogramming cells into stem cells. But cloning is complicated and does require creation of an embryo, which makes it practically useless for healing disease in humans.
And organ transplants have saved lives, but there is always the danger that the organ will be rejected by the body. There is no such danger with stem cells--they are cells already from the same body so they will never be rejected.
Scientists have big dreams for stem cells. Now there are exceedingly abundant resources for scientists because there are as many sources of stem cells as there are people.
And scientists are excited about what they can discover about diseases with these stem cells. They can take skin cells easily from a person and grow tissue with those cells and then study them to find out about the genetic make-up of disease.
That is going to speed up cures that are a little slow in coming. And by growing tissue out of stem cells scientists can study the effects of drugs they are developing without needing to test on animals, avoiding another ethical problem.
But the most wonderful promise of the new technology is that no embryos need to be sacrificed to cure sick people or save lives. Scientists caution that they still need to study embryos as the "standard," but the first step has been taken.
When you are sealed you will understand how precious life is, because you will see how God has given you eternal Life. And you will also see how God chose you from before history to receive the Seal.
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New York Man No Longer Has Congestive Heart Failure After Stem Cell Treatment
by Jerry Steele
Malcolm Anderson, 81, of Hudson, New York, reports that his ejection fraction (a measure of the heart's pumping function) has increased from 41% to 55%, thanks to a new adult stem cell therapy, that he received in Bangkok, Thailand.
Malcolm Anderson, was very worried when he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. He was going downhill. Malcolm asked his doctor, "What can I do about congestive heart failure?" His doctor replied, "you can take lasix." "I thought there must be something better than taking lasix the rest of my life" said Malcolm.
"I had an ejection fraction of 41%, not debilitating, but, long term, not good. I knew it would gradually get worse and worse."
Malcolm decided to search the internet and look for an alternative method of treating his congestive heart failure. He found that option in Theravitae, a biotechnology company in Thailand, that developed a procedure to treat congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease using a patient's own stem cells.
Theravitae's Vescell adult stem cell technology employs adult stem cells harvested from a small amount of the patient's own blood and does not require bone marrow extraction.
"I thought if it doesn't do any good, at least it doesn't do any harm," said Malcolm.
Malcolm was a little apprehensive before his arrival in Bangkok in March, 2007. "Once I got there, it was a piece of cake. They took great care of me from the moment I arrived at the airport."
Malcolm's own stem cells were implanted into his coronary arteries via catheter in a simple procedure very similar to an angioplasty.
Eight months later, the stem cell therapy has improved Malcolm's quality of life. "I recently visited my doctor - my diagnosis now is that I don't have heart failure anymore! My ejection fraction is 55%. That is a 30% increase! I'm feeling top shelf. I'm working again. I'm happy."
About the Author
Jerry Steele is Outreach Director at Theravitae, an international biotechnology company in Thailand that specializes in treating heart patients with their own stem cells. The company maintain a blog about stem cell therapy.
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Doctor transforms into Patient for Stem Cell Treatment
by Jerry Steele
A doctor from Hawaii traveled all the way to Thailand to become a patient to treat his heart disease. Dr. George Smith was treated for his heart condition with adult stem cell therapy for the 2nd time.
Dr.George Smith from Hawaii, who was used to treating patients, made the journey to Bangkok to become a patient to receive adult stem cell therapy for the second time. The first stem cell treatment was a success, but Dr. Smith was hoping for even more improvement the second time around.
Dr. Smith's story is not atypical. 'I had a massive coronary a little over five years ago and after three years began the descent into heart failure. I was on all the medicines; the alpha and beta blockers, the ace inhibitors, platelet tablets, fish oil and aspirin, but still going downhill and I was not a candidate for a heart transplant,' he said. 'My cardiologist said "Why not? I certainly have nothing else to offer you", and so I came to Bangkok in February of 2006. By April I was feeling quite well. I had no shortness of breath and my Six Minute Walk Test had already doubled. I had stopped my descent but wanted more,' he added.
After consulting the company's cardiologist in the U.S. Dr. Smith was clearly of the opinion that his myocardial muscle regeneration had outgrown the microcirculation in the heart. 'It was not the big blood vessels that were the problem, but the small ones. We felt that the second procedure with a catheter injection of stem cells directly into the coronary arteries would assist the regrowth of small blood vessels' he said. His local cardiologist agreed as all he could offer was further juggling of medications.
The patient and a medical friend were very impressed with the staff and the equipment at Bangkok Hospital. The equipment to give him a radioactive scan of his heart was state-of-the-art and the whole procedure took about half as long as it would have at home.
Dr. Smith is certain that stem cells to aid microvascularization will get him back to playing tennis. All he could do before the first procedure was walk the dog for a block and then sit down. He could read but was unable to do any of the things he enjoyed, like bike riding, tennis and working in the yard. 'My life was closing in on me. There comes a point where the medicines no longer give you a quality of life and, of course, heart transplants are reserved for the young. And so, you run out of slack and you run out of options,' he said.
Researching via the Internet and talking to patients who have had adult stem cell therapy is an option patients in heart failure should consider, according to this doctor. 'The improvements ex-patients will talk about are certainly not psychological because they will be able to give objective results like how far they can walk for six minutes and how much more blood is ejected in each contraction of the heart,' he counseled.
About the Author
Jerry Steele is Outreach Director of Theravitae, a company that treats heart disease with adult stem cell therapy(Vescell). The company also maintains a blog - Stem Cell Therapy Blog.
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