Stem cell revolution wins war on Alzheimer's
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Healthy adults will be able to boost their chances of surviving cancer and diseases such as Alzheimer’s by freezing stem cells taken from their blood for the first time.
A British company has been granted a licence to extract the cells, so that anyone can now pay to store them in the hope that they will one day help to cure fatal conditions.
Until now, it has only been possible to bank stem cells taken from umbilical cord blood and embryos left over from fertility treatment. The new system, approved last week by the Human Tissue Authority, involves a nurse visiting a ‘client’ at home and taking two egg-cups of blood by syringe, as in a simple blood test. Glasgow-based company Pharmacells charges £2,495 – equivalent to the cost of storing umbilical cord blood. Another package means paying £1,695 upfront, followed by £199-a-year for storage.
The cells are stored at -80C for up to 20 years. The advantage of banking your cells is that your immune system will not react against them. Continue to read: dailymail.co.uk
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