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One of many fascinating features of our mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) is that they are designed to stop growing on contact. In other words, when MSCs touch, they stop multiplying, or making copies. Embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) don’t do this. Why is this significant? Because…

At the Centeno-Schultz Clinic, we are committed to providing each patient the most advanced nonsurgical treatment, utilizing platelet, cytokine, and stem cell injections, for common orthopedic conditions. The risks associated with surgery are many and have been discussed in previous blogs. These include infection, failure, persistent or elevated pain, change in…

Every day, billions of cells in the human body die. If the body didn’t have a way to replace those cells, we wouldn’t live very long. Why? Consider these cellular life-spans: Liver cells, for example, only live for about a year and a half. For red blood cells, it’s only…

Today, in our fourth installment of our “Let’s Talk Stem Cells” series, we’re going to talk about how stem cells hijack other cells to make them do the stem cells’ chores. They do this by targeting other cells and firing exosomes at these cells. So what in the world is…

In part 3 of our “Let’s Talk Stem Cells” series, we’re going to talk about how stem cells delegate repair tasks to other cells to help with healing. Based on older research, it was initially believed that stem cells accomplished this only through differentiation (i.e., transforming into and then replacing…