Dr. Charles Mok explains how hemopoietic and mesenchymal stem cells work for tissue repair. Arthritis treatment is already in use, while heart disease, liver disease, and neurological damage remain potential future applications.
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And in the past 20 years or so, we're thinking more about stem cells for regeneration. Regenerative therapy, particularly arthritis, is the low hanging fruit. But people are also looking at stem cells for treating other conditions, such as heart disease, congestive heart failure, liver disease, and a myriad of other other conditions. So let's kind of go over stem cells, where we're at today. So there's different types of stem cells. There's hemopoietic stem cells, which are the ones that are in the bone marrow for blood cells. And we're mostly going to talk about something called a mesenchymal or mesenchymal stem cells. People pronounce it different ways, but these that are for most of the tissues in our body, such as bone, skin, muscles, cardiac tissue, liver. And then there's stem cells that are maybe more specific for the brain and other neurologic tissues.