Joy Kong, MDRegenerative Medicine Physician, Educator, and Entrepreneur

Why Your Body Is the Best Place to Grow Stem Cells

7 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A short monologue by Joy Kong, MD arguing that the human body is the optimal environment for growing stem cells compared with artificial laboratory methods. The speaker asserts that large-scale ex vivo expansion can produce asymmetrically dividing or uncontrolled cells unless exact conditions are known, and therefore growing cells in vivo (in the patient) may be preferable.

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Personally, I'm not a big believer in needing to grow cells to huge numbers for the cells to succeed. Because our human body really is the best cell incubator there is, not some artificial machine with some fluid and some nutrition that we decide may be good for the cells. This has been decided long before we know how to make a cell medium. So when you produce cells to a vast number, unless you know exactly, exactly how to control the cells, the cells are not dividing symmetrically.