So at the recommendation of Mr. bishop I've posted here regarding a
company called "stemsave"
e.g. the fact that you can do this even today seems promising:
http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/12/mitochondrial-rejuvenation-via-in
duced-pluripotency-techniques.php
And there's this:
http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/11/good-news-on-aged-stem-cells.php
"Regardless of the gender or age of the patient, or of diabetes, we were
able to isolate in all of them a pool of functional cardiac stem cells that
we can potentially use to rescue the decompensated human heart."
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Everyone has bone marrow stem cells, no matter how old (you just have fewer as you age).
Bone Marrow-derived stem cells are not as pluripotent as some other cells, but they are your cells so there is no risk of immune rejection. And people have some very clever tricks for "expanding" them (growing them into larger cell numbers without losing their pluripotency).
The thought also is a lot of the umbilical cord blood being saved after a successful birth is very close to human ES cell quality which may have applications in other adults with minimal immune rejection.
There's so much potential in this field, and so much being learned every day, the future is very bright indeed.
jordan
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> @reason .. is this a practice that i could walk into my doctors office
> and get today?
As a general rule, next to nothing published at Fight Aging! falls into that category. That's one of things I'd like to change with the Vegas Group initiative; cut down the 15 year regulatory wait for anything to emerge to something that's more like the timeline seen in the computing hardware industry.
>( btw the link was broken )
Link wrapping in email is the bane of my life. It's one of those things, like failing at VCR programming, that is a measure of one's failing grip on youth.
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but on the plus side, people have been taking adult cells and growing them up and re-implanting them in humans with no immune rejection already, so this is perhaps another vote for bone marrow-derived stem cells which are not genetically modified before being re-implanted.
jordan