A new dimension in medical science

[Guest cryocells]

Imagine what would have happened to our world if there were no doctors to treat us from our diseases? The mortality rate would have increased and as such it would have tremendously affected the health of the nation. Scientific discoveries in the sphere of medicine have indeed come as a boon to human beings. One such discovery which has made quite a stir in the medicinal world is the discovery of umbilical cord blood stem cells and cord blood stem cells.

 

The discovery of umbilical cord blood stem cells and cord blood stem cells have led to the prevention to a number of diseases which were other wise considered as incurable. Cord blood stem cell is the process of utilizing the blood which is found in the umbilical cord of a new born baby. This umbilical cord blood which has a rich supply of cord blood stem cells has the propensity of forming various organs, blood and blood products as well as tissues which is immensely required by the body to survive.

 

Based on the studies it has been scientifically established that cord blood stem cells have the ability to take on the structure, shape and function of any cell in our body. By doing so, the umbilical cord blood stem cells have been seen to have a repealing effect on few of the lethal damages caused by some diseases.

 

 

[Marat]

Don't hold your breath waiting for much concrete benefit to come from this. Medical research proceeds at such a glacially slow pace that it would take researchers a thousand years to find out how to open a door if you gave them a schematic diagram of a door knob and a working model -- as I have said before.

 

For example, von Mehring and Minkowski discovered in experiments in Berlin in 1889 that removal of the pancreas from a dog caused it to become diabetic, and yet it took medical science another 32 years to move from that result to finding that the metabolic effects of diabetes could be controlled by injecting into patients the substance excreted by the pancreas. Kolff in the Netherlands invented the first renal dialysis machine in 1944, but recognized that while it would keep patients alive, it provided them with such a hideous lifestyle their lives were not worth living. That continues to be the case today, more than 60 years later. I could go on, but the whole field is now so stagnant that it is just disgusting to recount all its failures.

 

Now in the U.S. life expectancies have ceased to advance for the first time since records were kept, and the FDA 'panic bulletin' of 2008 complained that most of the new drugs submitted over the previous decade were just trivial variations on existing drugs, but not genuine advances. What we are witnessing now is the decline of medical science into a long period of hibernation until genetic engineering and effective and safe use of stem cells open the door again to progress perhaps 50 years from now.