In fact, other researchers have already managed to persuade adult bone marrow stem cells to develop into brain neurons.
The transplanted bone marrow contains stem cells that can turn into skin cells.
If a match is found the donation of bone marrow involves the removal of stem cells from the hip bone.
In a study in mice, they injected stem cells from bone marrow into skeletal muscles of limbs.
Its technique involves extracting a patient's own bone-marrow cells, isolating certain stem cells, and delivering the gene therapy before returning the cells to the body.
When someone receives a bone marrow transplant as a treatment for cancer, what they are getting is an injection of the hematopoietic stem cells that are found in bone marrow.
Dr. Siegel says he will then transplant stem cells in the bone marrow to restore the marrow killed by chemotherapy.
For about a decade, scientists have experimented with the use of stem cells to try and repair the heart, mostly in animals and mostly using stem cells derived from bone marrow.
For regeneration to continue, stem cells from both the bone marrow and the heart itself must be coaxed to grow a second layer of tissue that is necessary for the formation of arteries, which are bigger and thicker than capillaries.
Macchiarini performed the nine-hour operation on April 9 at the Children's Hospital of Illinois after carefully creating the windpipe using stem cells from Hannah's bone marrow that were saturated over a matrix of plastic fibers shaped into a tube.
It was seeded with stem cells obtained from Hannah's bone marrow.
Northwestern University School of Medicine Researchers Christopher Bissonnette and Jack Kessler converted stem cells (general cells in the bone marrow) into brain cells that can be used to replace damaged neurons.
Its goal is to create pills that unlock the potential of stem cells already situated inside the brain, skin, and bone marrow.
The researchers showed that it could be used to grow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), a kind of primitive cell derived from bone marrow that can be easily grown in culture.
Dr Michael Seckl, a medical oncologist, and his team at the hospital found that treating cancerous cells with Taxol and stem cell infusion - an advanced form of bone marrow transplantation - was successful.
The first solid evidence implicating stem cells in cancer came in the early 1990s when John Dick, a stem cell researcher at the University of Toronto, developed a method for transplanting cancerous human bone marrow cells into mice.
Immediately after a bone marrow harvest, a volunteer courier travels -- by plane, train, or automobile -- with the stem cells and personally delivers them directly to the patient's location.
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