Stem cell therapy has grown from the huge potential identified in some body cells to develop specific functions depending on the tissue or organ where they are located. This process of conversion from unspecialized to specialized is known as differentiation or specialization. Regenerative medicine is the one that benefits most from the advantages of stem cell therapy since tissue regrowth is considered almost impossible for certain medical conditions. Imagine what this means for the recovery of spinal cord injuries!

In 2004, a great success case marked the evolution of stem cell therapy when a team of Korean researchers used stem cells taken from umbilical cord blood and treated a patient who was immobilized because of a spinal cord injury. Presently, the woman has no difficulties walking, after a nineteen-year period during which she was not able to move. This stem cell therapy simply consisted in the injecting of stem cells into the injured spinal cord portion. Heart diseases are also supposed to be treated by the revolutionary stem cells, but cures are still experimental for these ailments. People worldwide can use such experimental medicine to solve their heart problems, but surely, they should also afford the intervention.

The blood cells formation is another territory conquered by stem cell therapy. Many types of cancer destroy the quality of the vital fluid and cause a collapse in the entire system. Moreover, the administration of very powerful medication for the reduction of tumors further damages the quality of the blood by killing the rapidly regenerating cells. The use of stem cell therapy for the health benefit of the blood condition is one of the first merits of stem cell research and medicine. The most common intervention involved consists of the bone marrow transplantation from a donor to a patient.

Even if the applications of stem cell therapy extend to pretty much any injury, damage or disease that affects the human body, we’ll only mention one other treatment possibility considered pretty revolutionary. Stem cells seem to work great in the treatment of baldness or hair loss by the specialization into hair follicle cells. This stem cell therapy requires the collection of stem cells from healthy follicles and their transplant into the skin to regenerate the hair. All sorts of injuries will therefore benefit from a similar treatment.