Stem Cell Bank & Backup – Why Not Sure They Will Help Cure Cancer Too?

The discoveries of stem cells give hope and promise to human health and longevity. Some have questioned the ethics of using stem cells to prolong life, regenerate body parts, and maintain human health for religious reasons. Not everything is so cut and dry and these cells only work as well as they have been programmed and can be hijacked quite easily and cause other problems in case the individual has a diseased area where they are injected or even cancer.

In fact, a very interesting article recently appeared in “Positive Futuristic: Cutting Edge News and Information Covering Science, Technology and the Evolving World” which was published on May 10, 2011 titled; “Future of Healthcare: Stem Cells, Genetics, Remote Monitoring” by Dick Pelletier. There was an interesting prediction in the article;

“Although more research is needed to realize all the hopes and dreams of this ‘stem cell magic’, progress is advancing exponentially; especially in areas of creating soluble host systems (templates) that target stem cells to grow in specific parts, such as hearts, livers, pancreas, muscles, bones, eyes, skin, and teeth. However, researchers have noted that stem cells degrade in quality as people age, so they will offer people the ability to “store” their stem cells for future use. “

You may remember when Senator Edward Kennedy had brain cancer and it was thought that a revolutionary new treatment using these cells could save him. What a lot of people didn’t understand is that putting them in that area of ​​your brain would only have caused those cells to be hijacked into cancer cells, which would do the opposite of curing you. In other words, it would help the tumor grow, not contract or be expelled by new brain cells. There may be other future experimental techniques that might work, we’ll see in the future.

While the concept is legitimate, science has found that indistinguishable stem cells will turn into whatever they are told to become and can easily be hijacked into cancer cells. Banking and endorsement make sense for other things and could go a long way with an individual’s longevity. However, as people age, the copies of their cells are not as good and there is more and more bad information.

Therefore, these techniques for certain types of cancer are not a viable option for the future, even if they hold promise and solutions for other diseases and increase human longevity. In fact, I hope you will please consider all of this and think about it. If you have any new research, comments, questions or case studies, I would like you to contact me by email.