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"I would like to see umbilical cord stem cell storage offered to every pregnant woman. It is a simple process which can be a life-saver..."
Dr. Peter Hollands, Senior Lecturer
in Biomedical Science & stem cell pioneer
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"I want to make the UK the best place in the world for this (stem cell) research, so our scientists can develop new therapies to tackle brain and spinal cord repair, Alzheimer's and other degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's..."
British Prime Minister Tony Blair
"stem cells have the unique potential to repair the most devastating illnesses of our time, including diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson's and so on"
Professor Sir George Radd, UK Medical Research Council
"When Lisa Farquharson gave birth to her son Jesse in June 2000, she did something most parents never think about: on advice from her mother, a nurse, she saved the cell rich blood from her baby's umbelical cord. She could never have imagined that in less than two years her decision would save the life of the Canadian infant as he battled against eye cancer."
Source: The Sunday Times (British Newspaper)
"Researchers in the US say they have been using stem cells to successfully treat genetic diseases in children. The doctors told a conference that cells taken from umbilical cord blood can turn into healty heart cells, for instance, and repair damaged tissue.
The research suggests many childhood disorders such as leukaemia can be threated in this method.
For scientists, this confirms what laboratory tests havve long suggested - stem cell treatment works in the body."
Source: BBC News
"Millions of diabetics worldwide could put insulin injections behind them if a stem cell treatment that Argentine physicians have succesfully used to reverse the disease confirms promising early results. The treatment, in which stem cells are injected into the pancreas, does not involve risks of rejection, requires no prolonged inpatient treatment and any physician trained in and skilled with catheterisation could perform it, cardiologist Roberto Fernandez Vina told AFP."
Source: AFP News
"Stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood from four Hawaiian newborns have been matched to four Asian patients on the mainland with aggressive forms of leukaemia. "These four people had a second chance from something we would have tossed in the trash," said Dr. Randal Wada."
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
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