A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video (host McCall McPherson interviewing another speaker) clarifying that most currently available stem-cell therapies use adult (not embryonic) stem cells. The speakers emphasize that embryonic stem cells make up almost none of treatments readily available to Americans today. The broader video aims to explain adult stem-cell science and clinical applications.
And I think one big thing I want listeners to understand today is, like, especially people who are around my age, a little bit older, when they hear stem cells, they immediately think about highly controversial embryonic cells. How, what percentage of stem cells that we use readily, that are readily available to, like, the American people today use embryonic stem cells?
Almost none of it.
Right?
I mean, the whole industry has changed. Medicine has changed, because what you can do with adult cells is very different than what you can do with embryonic. Embryonic is trying to make you human. Adult stem cells are trying to correct whatever is damaged in terms of is it fat, is it bone, is it muscle? So if you put that stem cell in a bone, or if you put that in a muscle that's injured, it will just pick up the signals and it will heal it. Because they have this radar. They know what the damage is and they'll heal it. For example, I inject the knees. Meniscus is a cartilage. We can't heal it with anything. So the time that we are able now to put stem cells into a knee and it goes and picks up that tear in the meniscus and that cartilage is healed, that's changing the whole industry.