In a few months I will probably attend the annual reunion they've been doing for over 40 year's. While it's referred to as bone marrow transplant, and perhaps in the beginning it was marrow they were transplanting, I don't know, the reality is it's the stem cells in the marrow that make it work. Now for practically every application they can remove stem cells without taking marrow at all, if that's what the donor chooses to do.
I bring this up because while much of the work with stem cells is new, the benefits have been seen for over 40 years. Thousands of people come to City of Hope each year for the reunion, it's really quite an event, but I suspect it's only a small fraction of all who've had the transplant.
I'm frankly saddened by the resistance to doing research with placental stem cells here, although I believe it's now permitted. In many ways it's similar to the Govt. approach to research with cannabis. As I understand it, cannabis in one form or another has been used in much of the world for hundreds of years or more. Clearly it's been around here illegally for decades, perhaps centuries, but instead of studying and refining what can be done with it, officially it's been made illegal. As far as I'm concerned, our Govt. keeps shooting itself in the foot when it comes to drug development and reducing the cost of healthcare. I would suspect that our problems with opiods would be practically nonexistant had the drugs being developed by OWCP and others been available decades ago, and the sad thing is, they could have been.
Gary
Market Data 
Markets 
AI
