• Question: With a large "Hype" around STEM cells, how beneficial will they actually be towards the treatment of diseases such as cancer or blood infection.

    Asked by anon-196017 to Sebastian, Paddy, Lee, Jennifer, Fiona, Eleanor on 8 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Jennifer Harris

      Jennifer Harris answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      The great thing about stem cells is that they can be specific to patient so you reduce rejection and they can be turned into any cell type!

      This is great recent example of stem cells in helping cure disease: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47421855

    • Photo: Fiona Scott

      Fiona Scott answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      I don’t work on stem cells personally but I know a great blogger called Soph Talks Science who did during her PhD. She is better to ask than me.

      From my understanding you can use stem cells to create any kind of cell you want so you can in theory tune cells to go after cancer cells that you don’t want to be around the body.

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