Fat derived stem cells are adult stem cells.

But adult stem cells are not embryonic stem cells.

We also have adult stem cells throughout our body.

That's all stem cells.

Adult stem cells are throughout our body, including the blood forming stem cells in our bone marrow, which we've been using as a form of stem cell therapy for over 40 years.

Okay, induced pluripotent stem cells.

Plus we have stem cells.

Somatic or adults stem cells.

So, embryonic stem cells are really incredible cells.

And as it turns out, fat is one of the best sources of adult stem cells.

So why should you care? Bone marrow is a very rich source of adult stem cells.

So I've studied a lot about stem cells embryonic stem cells are particularly powerful.

They discovered that adult cells, taken from you and me, could be reprogrammed back into embryonic like cells, which they termed IPS cells, or induced pluripotent stem cells.

We've talked about stem cells tonight.

If we cannot use stem cells from your body then we'd like to use donor stem cells.

It's a great source of stem cells.

These are female and male stem cells.

You all know about embryonic stem cells.

Stem cells are packed in that liposuction fluid.

And for those we still need stem cells.

And here is the limitation adult stem cells are mature cells, and, like mature human beings, these cells are more restricted in their thought and more restricted in their behavior and are unable to give rise to the wide variety of specialized cell types, as embryonic stem cells can .

And I stumbled across something called cancer stem cells.

At first when I heard of cancer stem cells,

And obviously, the next question is, hey, well, why don't they just call them stem cells as opposed to embryonic stem cells?

So he'll take, say, falcon skin cells, fibroblast, turn it into induced pluripotent stem cells.

But the moral controversy surrounding embryonic stem cells the fact that these cells are derived from five day old human embryos has encouraged research into other types of stem cells.

Or we can use cells alone, either your very own cells or different stem cell populations.

And adult stem cells are found in you and me in our blood, in our bone marrow, in our fat, our skin and other organs.

They're a lot like embryonic stem cells except without the controversy.

So each of these right here are embryonic stem cells, and

Then, they sprayed stem cells onto that heart, from a mouse.

Those stem cells self organized, and that heart started to beat.

We've been actually using adult stem cells now in clinical trials for about 15 years to approach a whole range of topics, particularly in cardiovascular disease.

Today we realize that there are many different types of stem cells.

Soon, we actually will be able to use stem cells to replace cells that are damaged or diseased.

Stem cells provide hope for new beginnings small, incremental steps, cells rather than organs, repair rather than replacement.

And so guess what, scientists around the world and in the labs are racing to convert aging adult cells aging adult cells from you and me they are racing to reprogram these cells back into more useful IPS cells.

And we're working a lot with the stem cells that we published on two years ago, stem cells from the amniotic fluid, and the placenta, which have those properties.

And some of our investigative teams have demonstrated that female stem cells and this is in animals and increasingly we're showing this in humans that female stem cells, when put even into a male body, do better than male stem cells going into a male body.

let the stem cells grow and create a full copy of that mouse.

Here go the stem cells, right into the beating heart of the patient.

What's that? A possible treatment using stem cells from a genetically compatible donor.

There's this experimental treatment for Jack's disease, but he needs compatible stem cells.

And then what they did in October is they took skin cells, turned them into stem cells and began to turn them into liver cells.

The cancer stem cells remain, and the tumor can return months or years later.