It seems media and everyone is talking about these days are 3D organ printing or organ grafting by use of stem cells for use of organ failure or replacement. Like new windpipe, spleen, heart valve, ear, bladder, lungs so on.
What is with this range or fad these days? How do they know these 3D organ printing or organ grafting are safe for use?:eek::eek::eek:
Why not just use stem cell on the bad organ than throwing it out and giving you a new one.
Sorry I’m not asking how 3D organ printing or organ grafting works there are a number videos on youtube on it. And showing how 3D organ printing or organ grafting works and videos on it.
I was asking what media range is about. And why they NOT USE stem cell on the bad organ than throwing it out and giving you a new one. Seem simpler than what they are trying do here.
“Media range”?
How do you imagine they can “use stem cell on the bad organ”?
Stem cells are being researched for heart failure.
There is also research on using stem cells as a treatment for type 1 diabetes.
Liver failure too
So using them to repair an organ like the heart, liver or pancreas rather than replace it is an area of research.
I’m not sure why they may choose to repair an organ in one situation but replace it in another. I’m sure they have their reasons though.
Looking up info for another thread,I found black mold described as “the new asbestos”, n terms of health-related lawsuits.
There seems to be a stem cell clinical trial going on now for COPD, also. Maybe I don’t understand stem cells very much, but this trial injects the cells into the blood stream. Shouldn’t they be ‘pumped’ unto the lungs some way? Do these stem cells have the lung address encoded in their DNA or something.
Actually, I might volunteer, since I have COPD, but there are no trials in my area.
Bob
I remember when interferon was being touted as THE potential cure for cancer. It turns out that it’s only useful for several rare types of leukemia or lymphoma; however, if you have one of those types, it’s awfully important, and it also helped pave the way for the immune therapies that are expanding so much nowadays.
The 3-D printed body parts are made out of some kind of bodily-compatible material, and the patient’s own stem cells can be planted into them to avoid rejection, and also allows the artificial part to become part of their own body. So far, AFAIK this has mostly been used for children who have a very rare defect of the trachea, and enables the children to get off a ventilator and later a tracheostomy.
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This might be more helpful: CRISPR
There is video on youtube on this!! I just watched it today. It is called 3-D organ printing the printing of replacement organs like blood vessels, heart valves, windpipe, collagen, bone, bladder, ureter so on.
Looks like some really interesting things they are doing. I’m not sure how advance they have become over the years or what the technology challenges are.
But I believe they hope to have replacement body organs in 4 to 8 years from now. This means that organ transplant waiting list could be the thing of past in 4 to 8 years from now.