Joy Kong traces stem cell medicine back to bone marrow transplants in the 1960s, which doctors didn't yet realize were stem cell treatments. Researchers later found stem cells in bone marrow and discovered they exist throughout the body in many different types.
We've seen bone marrow transplantations, right? That's actually the first stem cell treatment, and that was back in 1960s. Even though at that time, people didn't know that they were performing stem cell transplant, they thought it was bone marrow transplant. There's something incredible about bone marrow. Later on, they found out that there are stem cells in bone marrow. And then for quite a while, they still thought that the only stem cells that are in the body are in the bone marrow. They didn't know that they're everywhere. So we have a lot of various types of stem cells.
