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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.
Stem Cell Therapy. Much of the attention and all of the controversy surrounding stem cell therapy has focused on embryonic stem cells -- cells harvested four to five days after an embryo is fertilized. Adult stem cells exist to replace damaged or aging cells, and they are found in tissue throughout the body of adults and in the blood and bone marrow, where cells are much easier to harvest. Stem cell therapy has been used for many decades to treat leukemia and other cancers, but the treatment-related death rate is high due to the aggressive chemotherapy and/or radiation used to dramatically suppress the immune system and kill cancer cells.