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Complications Seen From stem cells

Kompas.com - Complications caused by stem cell therapy began to unfold. A patient with kidney disease do not have survived after undergoing therapy. In handling the patient, stem cells injected into the kidney, but the patient was then suffering from tissue damage and death due to infection.

A number of researchers from Canada and Thailand to publish the findings in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and written warnings that must be considered related to stem cell therapy.

"We believe the damage was caused directly by the injected stem cells," says Dr. Duangpen Thirabanjasak from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Researchers from Chulalongkorn University and Paul Scott Thorner of the University of Toronto, the United States, involved in the removal and analysis of the defective kidney.

According to the researchers, there is a big difference between research and treatment. Stem cell therapies for the kidney in a variety of research proven safe. Many scientists hope that stem cells used to treat various diseases can be done because of reprogramming adult stem cells into specific cell types, including kidney cells. (BBC / Ine)