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Growing organs from stem cells. Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, Professor of Regenerative Surgery at Karolinska Institutet is famous for being the first man to grow (and transplant) a fully working human organ using adult stem cells. That was back in 2008 and since then five similar operations have been carried out.
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.