That was the first, and only, question that came in to my mind. Stem cells — adult or embryonic? It’s not stated in the article as far as I can tell.
Modern reporting. Treat it like perpetrator descriptions in the crime section - no race mentioned, minority status. They didn’t scream embryonic stem cell, so it’s probably adult.
The article speaks of the patient’s bone-marrow stem cells being transferred to other parts of the body, so they must be speaking of adult stem cells. Besides, given that the word “embryonic” was not included in bold and all-caps, it was obvious that these were adult stem cells. Also, given that this stem-cells treatment actually works, it must have been adult stem cells, since embryonic stem cells have never been found to cure anything despite the gazillions of public dollars spent on such research.
I know for some cancer chemos they are using adult stem cells to make the chemo customized for the individuals.
The need for fetal stem cells is really becoming a non issue for a lot of these diseases.
Actually it is. The very first step is to harvest the patient’s own stem cells (hence adult) freeze them to store them, fry the immune system, then put those stem cells back.