Itâs unlikely these colonists, known collectively as Pilgrims, could have imagined the months aheadâhalf the Mayflower passengers perished by the spring of 1621âlet alone the centuries to come, when their countless descendants would include presidents, artists, inventors and movie stars.
In this article Marc Darrow, M.D., explains Stem Cell Therapy for Bone on Bone Knee. 1  Research on Stem Cells for cartilage Repair. 2  Research on bone regrowth in damaged joints. 3  Research says five years after treatment â stem cells knees still better than before treatment. - 4 1.
Doctors use stem cell transplants to treat people who have: 1  Certain cancers, such as leukemia (lu-KE-me-ah). 2  The high doses of chemotherapy and radiation used to treat some cancers can severely damage or destroy bone marrow. 3  A transplant replaces the stem cells that the treatment destroyed.mall numbers of stem cells also are found in the blood and in the umbilical cord (the cord that connects a fetus to its mother's placenta). Another type of stem cell, called an embryonic (em-bre-ON-ik) stem cell, can develop into any type of cell in the body. These cells aren't found in bone marrow.