Researchers engineer adult stem cells that do not age

Researchers at the University of Buffalo have successfully engineered adult mesenchymal stem cells that grow indefinitely in culture. This has the potential to make stem cells treatments and research much more cost-effective. Currently, if a doctor or researcher wants to use stem cells, they have to constantly get new samples from bone marrow donors. By making the cell cultures live longer, the researchers would need much less. This also negates the problem that they have with varying degrees of performance in cells from different donors by allowing researchers to use the same donor's stem cells throughout the entire experiment. I found this article interesting because this research has the potential to make stem cell research much more cost-effective and I believe that stem cells have the potential to be used to treat many diseases and conditions that have unknown cures. By making this research cheaper, I think it will provide incentive for more universities and pharmaceutical companies to increase their research in this field.

http://www.breakthroughdigest.com/medical-news/researchers-engineer-adult-stem-cells-that-do-not-age/