Adult Stem Cells - the Gift that Just Keeps on Giving

Embryonic Stem Cells Need Not Apply:

I just can't even keep up with the advances some days. My inbox is filled with the news of patients being treated using adult stem cells, their own stem cells, or more advances in just the research side of adult stem cells.

Here are some amazing stories from this week:

• Woman receives windpipe built from her stem cells
• Same story repeated over here too
• And this story, using the patient's own stem cells to treat their heart failure
  

And then stories like this which just make me want to pull my hair out because they are SO misleading and factually WRONG because it leads the headline, "Stem cells restore hearing, vision in animals" with a statement about embryos (intimating embryonic stem cells) but the BREAKTHROUGH is with adult stem cells!

See:

"Stem cells from tiny embryos can be used to restore lost hearing and vision in animals, researchers said Tuesday in what they believe is a first step toward helping people.

One team repaired hearing in guinea pigs using human bone marrow stem cells, while another grew functioning eyes in tadpoles using frog cells."

No tiny embryos were used! Human bone marrow stem cells were used or frog embryos don't form blastocysts, therefore there are no frog embryonic stem cells. And even more disingenuous is the use of the photo above of embryonic stem cells.