{"id":331,"date":"2006-07-22T09:19:32","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T13:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2006-07-22T09:19:32","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T13:19:32","slug":"embryonic-adult-and-umbilical-cord-stem-cells-wtf-is-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Embryonic, Adult, and Umbilical Cord Stem Cells &#8230; WTF Is The Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of President George Bush&#8217;s virginal veto last week, I thought Lucy might need some &#8216;splainin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Ann Coulter doesn&#8217;t sue me for quoting from her new book but here is a major difference.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A short list of successful treatments achieved by <strong>adult stem cells<\/strong> are these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rebuilding livers wracked by otherwise irreversible cirrhosis<\/li>\n<li>Repairing spinal cord injuries by using <strong>stem cells from nasal and sinus regions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Completely reversing Type I diabetes in mice using <strong>adult spleen cells<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Putting Crohn&#8217;s disease into remission with the <strong>patient&#8217;s own blood stem cells<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Putting lupus into remission using <strong>stem cells from the patient&#8217;s bloodstream<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Treating sickle-cell anemia using stem cells from <strong>Umbilical Cord<\/strong> blood<\/li>\n<li>Repairing the heart muscles in patients with congestive heart failure using <strong>adult stem cells from bone marrow<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Repairing heart attack damage with the <strong>patient&#8217;s own blood stem cells<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Restoring bone marrow in cancer patients using stem cells from <strong>umbilical cord<\/strong> blood<\/li>\n<li>Restoring weak heart muscles using <strong>immature skeletal muscle cells<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Putting leukemia into remission using <strong>umbilical cord<\/strong> blood<\/li>\n<li>healing bone fractures with <strong>bone marrow cells<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Restoring sight in blind people using <strong>ocular surface stem cell transplant<\/strong> and a cornea transplant<\/li>\n<li>Treating urinary incontinence using <strong>stem cells from underarm muscle<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Reversing severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) with <strong>genetically modified adult stem cells<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Restoring blood circulation in legs with <strong>bone marrow stem cells<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, e<strong>mbryonic stem cells have never cured anything in any living creature.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(bolded emphasis above is mine)<\/p>\n<p>It is obvious that embryonic stem cells have done Bo Diddley (not to mention Christopher Reeves) squat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of President George Bush&#8217;s virginal veto last week, I thought Lucy might need some &#8216;splainin&#8217;. I hope Ann Coulter doesn&#8217;t sue me for quoting from her new book but here is a major difference. A short list of successful treatments achieved by adult stem cells are these: Rebuilding livers wracked by otherwise irreversible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23,53,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedia-screwedica","category-healthcare","category-politics-international","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}