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January 21, 2009

Woman Gets New Windpipe Produced From Her Own Stem Cells

Topics: Life Issues
Needless to say, both the pro-life community - who affirm the use of adult stem cells - and medical researchers are thrilled with these results:

WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - A Spanish woman made medical history recently by receiving a new windpipe which had been grown from her own stem cells. The announcement has brought tremendous excitement among the pro-life as well as medical communities. The former group cited this as additional evidence that adult stem cell research, which is in complete accord with catholic social teaching, is producing real results.

Claudia Castillo is a 30 year-old mother from Barcelona, Spain with a collapsed trachea, due to tuberculosis, that left her unable to breathe. Using a graft from a donor that was imbued with stem cells from the woman's bone marrow, doctors were able to fashion a new organ that replaced her existing windpipe last June.

After only four months of recovery she was able to climb two flights of stairs, and even go dancing. She also is able to look after her children - another activity that were previously impossible.

By using the woman's stem cells, Ms. Castillo becoming the first person to receive a whole organ transplant without the need for powerful immunosuppressant drugs. She still shows no signs of rejecting the new organ.

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As Life Issues Institute points out, embryonic stem cells research (ESCR) involve a living human embryo being killed in the process of harvesting the cells and to date, current research on embryonic stem cells has resulted in no promising results. In contrast, adult stem cells can be harvested without a loss of life, and they are readily available from bone marrow, skin, fat, umbilical cord blood and other sources. Furthermore, there are numerous examples of research breakthroughs with adult stem cells (see link).

Posted by Hyscience at January 21, 2009 2:12 PM

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