A needle costs nearly 600 thousand, and they are willing to spend 4 million 30 years younger. They don't care if it works, as long as there are no side effects. In recent years, with the emergence of the concept of "stem cell", various stem cell therapies related to it have emerged one after another, such as "stem cell beauty" and "stem cell anti-aging".
On May 20th, Academician qi zhou gave a lecture entitled "Magic Stem Cells and Cell Therapy" at the "Science Night" of the 20 18 National Science and Technology Week held by the National Animal Museum, and gave a positive response to the hot issue of "60. 1 10,000 needles". The main points of Academician qi zhou's response in the lecture are as follows:
Relevant management and publicity need to be strengthened.
Since ancient times, everyone has a dream of immortality, hoping to delay aging and prolong life. Some people even say that stem cells can treat various diseases such as diabetes and kidney disease. Look at what America has done. As we all know, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been very strict in supervision, as well as in the stem cell market. Just find a few examples: 20 1 1 policies to strengthen clinical supervision; 20 16, mandatory management of stem cell market; In 20 18, FDA requested to issue a permanent ban to prohibit American stem cell clinics and California cell therapy centers from selling stem cell products without the approval of regulatory authorities.
These two institutions are advertised by many people as having better clinical effects in stem cell therapy. Why are they being sued by the federal government? Why is it banned forever? Why didn't these news spread in our country? Why didn't anyone in America come up with a strict regulatory policy? Why do the news of many of our websites promote that stem cells are omnipotent cells, which can cure all diseases and live forever? It is necessary to reflect on whether the scientific literacy and knowledge popularization ability are complete.
Summarize the selling points of "stem cell therapy" in Ukraine;
Selling point 1: under the banner of embryonic stem cell therapy
Selling point 2: hitting the pain points of the rich, not only pursuing treatment, but also hoping to live forever.
Selling point 3: It is claimed to be effective for intractable diseases such as Parkinson's disease and diabetes.
So, what are stem cells? Everyone knows that people can donate blood. What is the principle? Will blood donation be harmful to health? There is no problem for adults to donate 400cc blood each time, and because of hematopoietic stem cells, the blood transfusion can be compensated quickly. Similarly, people should cut their hair when it grows, and their nails when they grow, and skin debris will fall off when cleaning the room. These are hair follicle stem cells and skin stem cells, and cells are metabolized all the time. Our physiological metabolism, growth and development are all due to the existence of these cells, which are stem cells.
In English, Stemcells means "stem cells" in Chinese. Like the stems of plants, stem cells continuously support the development and growth of tissues and organs. What can stem cells do? As we all know, most of the cases of leukemia are traced back to the disorder of hematopoietic function, such as the lack of hematopoietic stem cells and the apoptosis of hematopoietic stem cells. Without hematopoietic stem cells, the human body loses its hematopoietic function. Clinically, through hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, that is, bone marrow transplantation, thousands of lives have been saved.
Why can someone else's bone marrow be successfully transplanted into a patient? Hematopoietic stem cells can play a role in xenotransplantation as long as they are properly matched. Many children with leukemia can be cured for life and survive for a long time after finding bone marrow donor. Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation provides us with a good idea. If stem cells have this function and blood loss can be achieved through hematopoietic stem cells, can any stem cells play this role when other organs have problems? Therefore, the potential application of stem cells is of great value, as shown in the following figure. Arthritis, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and so on shown in the figure are all current research fields.
However, except for bone marrow transplantation, no stem cell therapy can be widely used in clinic like drugs. This field has developed rapidly, and the research results in this field have won the Nobel Prize for three times: the beginning and development of life, how does a person change from a fertilized egg to a complete individual? Everyone knows that pregnancy in October, from a cell to a fetus to an adult, is the result of the division and proliferation of thousands of cells, which is a magical process.
The effect is not guaranteed, and the rich don't care.
Source: Chu Wangxiu