Wednesday, October 5, 2011

STEM CELL AWARENESS DAY - 5th October

Today is officially "stem cell awareness day"!!! It is a day dedicated to providing accurate and up to date information about stem cell therapy for treating or curing many diseases and injuries.

Stem cell research is developing ground-breaking advances in science and medicine that represent the best hope that people have for healing treatments who are suffering from these diseases or injuries. It is incredible to think that WE as the next generation will witness how stem cell therapy evolves into eventually being a widly used tool for the treatment of many incurable diseases.

This video provides a brief glimpse into one of the many treatments that stem cell technology is being developed to address:





If you're new to this world, have a look at the following links as well as thewackyscientist.blogspot.com and discover the magic of stem cells:
stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics
learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/stemcells
www.newscientist.com/topic/stem-cells
www.stemcells.com/
www.thelancet.com
www.bmj.com/

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