Wonderful, miraculous treatment, if not cure. We've got one in our family: my granddaughter had an umbilical cord transplant at 15 months old because of a genetic problem that kept her from ever making enough white blood cells (her count was never above 1800, despite Nupogen) and then complete bone marrow failure.
We learned today that adult stem cells continue dividing much longer and reliably than previously thought.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050623/clth053.html?.v=14
(For goodness sake, we learned last year that women make new eggs for their whole lives - negating what used to be Truth: all eggs are created by a girl before birth.
For some reason, far too many with the loudest voices and public forums continue to lack imagination. For some reason, they insist that it will be more useful to create clones of each patient, find or create stem cells - destroying the clone - to treat the disease.
Why on earth would anyone believe that cloning is more feasible than finding and treating and then using adult stem cells???
How's she doing now?