Science demystify the therapeutic cloning  
By Jaqueline Lopes

Cellular Therapy

Cellular Therapy
Mayana Zatz, the honorary Genetic teacher, coordinator of the Human Genome Studies Center, of the Biology Department of Bioscience Institution of São Paulo State University (USP), says "the therapy with the body-cells will bring the cure to the degenerative diseases, caused by the precocious death and tissues and organs bad working".

As an example of the harm caused by the tissues or organs lack - and how they can be solved with the body-cells therapy -, the teacher Mayana Zatz quotes the neural muscular, renal, cardiac or hepatic and diabetes diseases. "Numberless searches have been put into effect all over the world meaning to find out how should be the procedure to obtain distinguished body-cells to replace the ill tissues", informs the teacher.

Actually, according to Mayana Zatz, "the cellular therapy is a way of treatment of illness and injured holder patients, by the aid of ill tissues replace by health ones - through the injection of body-cells ".

"The bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia patients, for instance, is a well-known method of cellular therapy - and efficient proved", comments the teacher, adding "the procedure success comes from the giver of bone marrow hold the blood body-cells, which are going to produce new and health blood cells in the patient organism". (www.rimed.com.br/noticias/cancer1.asp)

Reproductive Cloning


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