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Are these sorts of treatments available anywhere in Europe?
On our underfunded government socialized healthcare systems? No way. Those who are minted go to the US or Switzerland for best cutting edge treatments and prosthetics.
Here's a dumb question: is it possible to culture stem cells? Or make more of them? Or does every stem cell have to be donated?
And another one: could we take someone's own stem cells, edit this mutation into them with CRISPR, culture more of them, and then re-implant them?
Are these sorts of treatments available anywhere in Europe?
I believe its a byproduct of stem cell transplant treatment for blood cancer combined with the luck that the matching donor having a mutation that protects against HIV.
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Some highlights after reading the Wikipedia article on Stem cell controversy: - Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Portugal and Ireland do not allow the production of embryonic stem cell lines - The creation of embryonic stem cell lines is permitted in Finland, Greece, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom - Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, North Dakota and South Dakota have passed laws to "prohibit the creati…
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These sort of articles pop up every few months and make people hopeful for a cure, but this is sadly unlikely to ever be a viable one. Stem cell transplantation is a standard treatment for several blood cancers, but will almost certainly never be a standard HIV treatment for anyone except patients who need a transplantation anyway, for one single reason: with modern medicine, living with transplanted stem cells is si…
These sort of articles pop up every few months and make people hopeful for a cure, but this is sadly unlikely to ever be a viable one. Stem cell transplantation is a standard treatment for several blood cancers, but will almost certainly never be a standard HIV treatment for anyone except patients who need a transplantation anyway, for one single reason: with modern medicine, living with transplanted stem cells is si…
Here's a dumb question: is it possible to culture stem cells? Or make more of them? Or does every stem cell have to be donated?
I don't know much more about it but that certainly is part of the answer to your question. Hopefully others will chime in ...
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Some highlights after reading the Wikipedia article on Stem cell controversy: - Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Portugal and Ireland do not allow the production of embryonic stem cell lines - The creation of embryonic stem cell lines is permitted in Finland, Greece, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom - Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, North Dakota and South Dakota have passed laws to "prohibit the creati…
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Stem cells seem to have this potential to cure so many things but we are somehow not there yet.
Are there still laws in place that prohibit research using stem cells? That might not help
I worked in a few labs that did stem cell work and we got really attached to some of them. Like, "here's a microbrain I've been growing for 3 months", you start to empathize with them a bit.
Here's a dumb question: is it possible to culture stem cells? Or make more of them? Or does every stem cell have to be donated?
And another one: could we take someone's own stem cells, edit this mutation into them with CRISPR, culture more of them, and then re-implant them?