Stem Cell Therapy For Degeneration

Right about that time, stem cells were becoming something that people were starting to consider for other conditions than their original indication in the 60s, which were certain types of cancers. And stem cell therapy was being thought about as something to use for things like spinal cord injuries, heart disease, arthritis, various conditions of degeneration. Happens over time. You have a stroke, let's say, in your brain, and there's lack of blood flow to a certain area, and the cells die off. And ideally, they would start growing back, but they really don't. For a spinal cord injury, same thing, some trauma, some dead cells, and they don't tend to grow back. In the spinal cord, in the knees or hips or shoulders, there's continuous wear, wear, wear, which causes inflammation. And the stem cells just stop replacing the chondrocytes or the cartilage. And stem cells were promising for that.