Fat derived stem cells are adult stem cells.

So we're attacking the wrong target.

like heart, liver, nerve and pancreas.

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This is a stem cell that we've developed here in Oxford, from an embryonic stem cell.

Many scientists can now grow many different types of cells.

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.

That turns out to be a big deal because now you can take, not just mouse cells, but you can human skin cells and turn them into human 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.

I wanted to live.

The whole process of differentiation is actually fascinating, and we'll talk a lot more about that when we talk about stem cells, embryonic stem cells, and maybe we'll even talk about the debate of it.

I'll nicely demonstrate that for you. (Laughter)

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

This is an extremely new field.

It's a great source of stem cells.

Because women bring new life into the world.

So you have this notion of when you to get an embryonic stem cell line, and when I say a stem cell line, I mean you take a couple of stem cells, or let's say you take one stem cell, and then you put it in a Petri dish, and then you allow it to just duplicate.

At first when I heard of cancer stem cells,

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

These are actually cells that we obtained.

4.8 million suffer cardiac failure.

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They've got great potential but haven't yet entered clinical trials.

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

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Then someone could take one of these and then put it in their own Petri dish.

And it was really interesting there were articles correlating if you have a bone fracture, and then bone cancer arises.

But adult stem cells are not embryonic stem cells.

And this is really what I want to talk to you about today about cancer.

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

But right now, this isn't an area of debate because, left to their own devices, a somatic stem cell or an adult stem cell won't turn into a human being, while an embryonic one, if it is implanted in a willing mother, then, of course, it will turn into a human being.

Out comes the liposuction fluid, and in this case, the stem cells are isolated and turned into neurons.

Now I'll close with regenerative medicine.

leaving just the cartilage.

So, what can we do about it?

That's a way to do it.

It's an automated robotic technology.

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

All done in the lab.

And for those we still need stem cells.