JOOST UNDERGOES STEM CELL THERAPY
 August
25, 2011 - South
African rugby icon, Joost van der Westhuizen, is undergoing experimental stem
cell therapy in order to regenerate and repair damaged tissue and to assist
with impaired muscle functioning. It is the first time that this kind of
treatment is being tried in South Africa.
Van der Westhuizen was
diagnosed with ALS, a form of Motor Neuron Disease (MND), over two months ago. ALS is
unfortunately a life-threatening neurodegenerative condition with an 80%
mortality rate over a period of two to five years.
According to his Specialist
Neurologist, Dr Jody Pearl, Van der Westhuizen’s diagnosis of ALS was
confirmed at Cleveland Clinic’s Neuromuscular Unit in Ohio, United States, in
July 2011, by one of the world’s leading experts in this condition.
Pearl said: “At this point treatment options are limited and essentially
restricted to palliative and supportive therapy. Therefore Joost decided, with
the support of his doctors and South African Rugby Legends Association
President, Gavin Varejes, to opt for stem cell treatment.”
The aim of the therapy is to
regenerate and repair damaged muscle tissue and hopefully delay further
degeneration of his muscle function.
How Joost's treatment
began
…his fat tissue was
collected...and the mesenchymal stem cells were carefully isolated…and later
administered this both intra-muscularly and intravenously to Van der
Westhuizen.
It is a completely safe
procedure as Van der Westhuizen’s own stem cells have been used in preparing
the therapeutic and no synthetic agents were used in the process. This is
known as cell-free therapy as the whole stem cell is not transplanted.
First of it's kind in
SA
… this is the first treatment of its kind in South Africa. “We are humbled
that we are able to offer this type of cutting-edge technology to Joost, and,
while he travelled to the United States for the latest in MND testing and
research, he is able to receive this treatment right here at home. Joost is
pleased to be raising awareness about neuro-degenerative diseases and
potential treatment options.”
… mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are being employed in both research and
clinical environments for a variety of aesthetic and medical conditions that
include skin regeneration (wound healing and scar remodeling, skin
pigmentation disorders); neurology (nerve regeneration and repair);
orthopedics (cartilage, bone repair); sports injury (tendon, ligament
repair); cardiology (heart muscle regeneration); reconstructive surgery (fat
autografts); and many other clinical areas.
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BOY GETS SISTER'S UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD
2011-08-25 08:13
AN eight-year-old
boy was given umbilical cord blood from his 22-month-old sister at a local
hospital yesterday to treat his leukemia.
 Doctors
from Shanghai Daopei Hospital said the blood was a perfect match for the boy,
whose prognosis will be known in a month.
Umbilical
cord blood, collected during the delivery of a baby, and bone marrow are used
in similar ways for blood and immunity disease treatment. The key ingredient
in both is stem cells. Stem cells from umbilical cord blood are less mature
than those in adult bone marrow, less prone to rejection by the recipient and
more active in developing into different types of cells.
The boy
identified by the nickname Jia Jia, a Jiangsu Province native, developed
acute leukemia at the age of five with symptoms including shortness of
breath, pale face, nosebleeds and joint pain.
The disease
was well under control after he received chemotherapy. Jia Jia went to school
with children his age.
Concerned
about Jia Jia's leukemia, his parents gave birth to a girl in 2009, and they
kept and stored her umbilical cord blood at Shanghai Cord Blood Bank.
The boy had
a sudden relapse this year. Doctors suggested a stem cell transplant because
Jia Jia's situation deteriorated quickly and his organs, seriously stressed
in the chemotherapy, would not sustain a second round.
The parents
faxed the information about Jia Jia to the cord blood bank, which found his
sister's cord blood was a perfect match for all six key DNA genes for
leukemia.
The
probability of such a match was about 25 percent.
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PROGRESS IN REPAIR STEM CELL SCIENCE
There are treatment centers that use fatty (adipose) tissues
exclusively for stem cell treatments. Contact donmargolis@gmail.com for more information today!
FAT IS BEST SOURCE FOR STEM CELL TREATMENTS
The human body’s usually
unwanted fat tissue may end up, after all, as a very useful contributor to
regenerative medicine, a rapidly expanding set of innovative medical
technologies that restore human function by enabling the body to repair,
replace, or regenerate damaged, aging or diseased cells, tissues, and organs.
The use of autologous or one’s own fat, which in itself contains large
amounts of various types of stem cells, is a new frontier in
medicine that’s widely accepted in Europe and Asia.
“Fat
stem cells are now the cutting edge, with many doctors and companies
researching the use of them for anti-aging effects, as well as for the
treatment of more serious conditions like arthritis, congestive heart
failure, gum recession, and wound healing.
"It
is very apparent that a person’s fat cells are the best source of stem cells,
which are stored inactively in one’s fat tissues, for use in the fast growing
field of regenerative medicine," IntelliCell CEO, Dr. Steven Victor told
Forbes.
Indeed,
these fat stem cells have similar potential to embryonic stem cells in their
pluripotency, and are from a source that involves no moral or ethical issues,
as well as no chemical additives required for digestion of the tissue.
In
the aesthetic world, the use of autologous adipose, or fat, stem cells has
become widely accepted in Europe and Asia. Since the US FDA published its
laws on autologous stem cells in mid-2009, the field has expanded rapidly.” Quoted Material Via
Several young biotech firms
are already using an adult’s own stem cells not for cosmetic effects
alone but to meet the rising demand for anti-aging and rejuvenation
treatments, as well as addressing more serious medical conditions, including
acute cardiovascular disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, inflammation,
arthritis, and hypertension.
Certainly the cell therapy
industry is showing great potential for huge growth….
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HEALING WOUNDS
WITH YOUR OWN STEM CELLS
Doctors at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine are
participating in a study that takes stem cells from a patient's own body and
uses them to treat their stubborn wounds. Adult stem cells are becoming a
more realistic option for treating wounds that are refusing to heal. Certain
stem cells can be isolated from bone marrow and other tissues, such as
adipose and skin tissue.
Read
More
The world of repair stem cells keeps getting better! New
sources of stem cells are found, new uses for stem cells, new treatment
protocols and new victories abound. One day, every disease known to man will
be improved with repair stem cells!
NEW TREATMENTS FOR BALDNESS? SCIENTISTS
FIND STEM CELLS THAT TELL HAIR IT’S TIME TO GROW
 ScienceDaily
(Sep. 2, 2011) — Yale researchers have discovered the source of signals that
trigger hair growth, an insight that may lead to new treatments for baldness.
The
researchers identified stem cells within the skin’s fatty layer and
showed that molecular signals from these cells were necessary to spur hair
growth in mice, according to research published in the Sept. 2 issue of the
journal Cell.
“If
we can get these fat cells in the skin to talk to the dormant stem cells at
the base of hair follicles, we might be able to get hair to grow again,”
said
Valerie Horsley, assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental
biology and senior author of the paper.
Men with
male pattern baldness still have stem cells in follicle roots but these stem
cells lose the ability to jump-start hair regeneration. Scientists have known
that these follicle stem cells need signals from within the skin to grow
hair, but the source of those signals has been unclear…
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CLINICAL TRIAL USES STEM CELLS TO TREAT MS
Wednesday,
August 24, 2011 – by WKSU’s DAWN EINSEL
Collaborative study in Cleveland hopes to find reversal for immune disease
damage
Cleveland’s
top medical facilities are collaborating on the nation’s first clinical trial
that uses adult stem cells to treat multiple sclerosis. Four patients are now
enrolled in the study by the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and Case
Western Reserve University, which hopes to treat AND reverse damage to the
nervous system caused by MS.
In the
trial, stem cells are taken from a patient’s bone marrow, cultivated and then
injected back into the body. Neurologist Jeffrey Cohen is the lead investigator
and director of experimental therapeutics at the Clinic. He says current
treatments can slow the disease, but stem cells show a different potential.
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ULTRASOUND IMPROVES STEM CELL TRANSPLANTS,
SWEDISH RESEARCHERS DISCOVER
 ScienceDaily
(Sep. 7, 2011) —
Transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells is an effective treatment
for patients with malignant blood diseases. The composition and
quality of the transplanted cells are crucial to the outcome. Researchers
from Lund University, Sweden, have now developed a method to improve the
quality of the transplanted cells using ultrasound for cell separation.
For patients with blood
cancer, a blood stem cell transplant is often the only treatment
that can cure the disease. The quality of the transplanted blood stem cells
and the choice and composition of the transplanted cells can be crucial.
Current methods of
collecting and processing stem cell products leave a lot to be desired.
Recent results from Lund University indicate that it may be possible to
considerably improve the quality of the blood stem cell product by using a
method known as acoustic cell separation…
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Stem cells not only
repair dead and failing tissue, they also know where to go in your body to
heal you and they even regulate your body so it can remain as healthy as
possible. Be kind to your body and be kind to your stem cells; they are your
personal fountain of youth!
EXERCISE BOOSTS HEALTH BY
INFLUENCING STEM CELLS TO BECOME BONE, NOT FAT, RESEARCHERS FIND
 ScienceDaily
(Sep. 1, 2011) —
McMaster researchers have found one more reason to exercise: working out
triggers influential stem cells to become bone instead of fat, improving
overall health by boosting the body's capacity to make blood.
The body's mesenchymal
stem cells are most likely to become fat or bone, depending on which path
they follow.
Using treadmill-conditioned
mice, a team led by the Department of Kinesiology's Gianni Parise has shown
that aerobic exercise triggers those cells to become bone more often than
fat. The exercising mice ran less than an hour, three times a week, enough time
to have a significant impact on their blood production, says Parise, an
associate professor.
In sedentary mice, the same
stem cells were more likely to become fat, impairing blood production in the
marrow cavities of bones. The research appears in a new paper published by
the Journal of the
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology…
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Stem cells derived
from many sources help in the recovery of many diseases. Different sources
are better to treat different diseases. Stem cells from the nose are a
neurological God send. From the fat are ideal for regeneration but they both
may now have some serious competition. Stem cells from the mouth do not seem
to age along with the rest of our bodies, they are easy for scientists to
manipulate and they help healing in days instead of weeks. It would appear,
stem cells from all the wet and icky parts of our body (nose, mouth,
menstruation) may be the most powerful stem cells known to man!
‘OPEN WIDE’ FOR NEW STEM CELL POTENTIAL
 ScienceDaily
(Aug. 23, 2011)
— While highly potent embryonic stem cells are often the subject of ethical
and safety controversy, adult-derived stem cells have other problems. As we
age, our stem cells are less pliant and less able to transform into the stem
cells that science needs to find breakthrough treatments for disease.
An exception to this can be
found in the stem cells of oral mucosa, the membrane that lines the inside of
our mouths. These cells do not seem to age along with the rest of our bodies.
In his lab at Tel Aviv University’s Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine,
Prof. Sandu Pitaru and his graduate students Keren Marinka-Kalmany, Sandra
Treves, Miri Yafee and Yossi Gafni, have successfully collected cells from
oral mucosa and manipulated them into stem cells.
Though taken from adult
tissues, these oral stem cells are almost as easy to manipulate as embryonic
stem cells, Prof. Pitaru discovered. His research, which has been published
in the journal Stem Cell Studies, opens a new
door to stem cell research and potential therapies for neurodegenerative,
heart, and autoimmune diseases, as well as diabetes.
The healing powers
of Wolverine
Dentists have long been
aware of some of the unique properties of the oral mucosa, says Prof. Pitaru.
“Wounds in the oral mucosa heal by regeneration, which means that the tissue
reverts completely back to its original state,” he says. A wound that might
take weeks to heal and leave a life-long scar on the skin will be healed in a
matter of days inside the mouth, regardless of the patient’s age. Except for
the mouth, this type of healing usually occurs only in very young organisms
and lower amphibians, such as the lizards that can regenerate their tails.
Prof. Pitaru set out to
determine if oral mucosa could be a source for young, fetal-like stem cells
with this unique healing ability. Even when obtained from an older patient,
he says, these stem cells still have properties of young or primitive stem
cells – which have a high capacity to be transformed into different tissues.
Prof. Pitaru and his fellow researchers have already succeeded in coaxing
oral mucosa stem cells into becoming other significant cells, including bone,
cartilage, muscle, and even neurons.
All this, says Prof.
Pitaru, is derived from a miniscule biopsy of tissue, measuring 1 by 2 by 3
millimeters. “We are able to grow trillions of stem cells from this small
piece of tissue,” he explains. The site of the biopsy is readily accessible,
and patients experience minimal discomfort and require almost no healing
time. This makes the mouth a convenient site for harvesting stem cells.
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LABRATS
Sci-Fi movies portray
the enslavement of the human race by aliens all the time. But what if our
enslavement came from a much closer enemy, a domestic threat that is huge,
insidious and has infinite tentacles reaching into infinite caches of
information you think is secure and private.
Paging Big Brother!
Soon, we will all be
regulated by our very own government and our most intimate information and
life details available to the highest bidder. But rest easy my fellow
cattle; it’s for your own good! Freedom is dead; long live the enslavement of the
human population!
HOSPITAL PATIENTS NOW BEING
MICROCHIPPED WITH "ELECTRONIC TATTOOS"
Thursday,
August 25, 2011 by: Christina Luisa
(NaturalNews)
Being microchipped is now being spun as a method of protecting the health of
hospital patients. To help mask the practice of this bodily invasion with a
trendy, high-tech appearance, microchipping sensors are being referred to as
"electronic tattoos" that can attach to human skin and stretch and
move without breaking.
Supposedly the comparisons of this hair-thin electronic patch-like chip to an
electronic tattoo are being made because of how it adheres to the skin like a
temporary tattoo using only water.
The small chip is less than 50 micrometers thick, which is thinner in
diameter than a human hair. It is being marketed as a "safe" and
easy way to temporarily monitor the heart and brain in patients while
replacing bulky medical equipment currently being used in hospitals.
This device uses micro-electronics technology called an epidermal electronic
system (EES) and is said to be a development that will "transform"
medical sensing technology, computer gaming and even spy operations,
according to a study published last week.
The hair-thin chip was developed by an international team of researchers from
the United States, China and Singapore and is described in the Journal of
Science.
The proven link between animal microchipping and cancer
Pet
microchips have become increasingly common over the past few years. These chips
are marked with a small barcode that can be scanned just like the tags on
grocery items.
This seems to suggest that microchips are meant to turn the wearer into an
object that can be tracked and catalogued. Once inserted in an animal,
the chip stays there for the entirety of its lifetime and can be used to
identify the pet if it should be found on the street or turned into a
shelter. The subdermal chips are often recommended by vets and animal care
experts as a way to ensure lost pets find their way home again.
But research suggests that despite their proclaimed usefulness, pet
microchips may cause cancer. Multiple studies have clearly linked pet
microchips with increased incidence of cancer and tumors in mice and rats.
In the past, public disclosure of these suggested links between microchipping
and cancer in animals stirred widespread concern over the safety of
implantable microchips in living beings. The animal microchip study findings
that created such an uproar were so persuasive that Dr. Robert Benezra,
head of the Cancer Biology Genetics Program at the Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, was quoted in an article about
microchipping as saying,
"There's no way in the world, having read this information, that I
would have one of those chips implanted in my skin, or in one of my family
members."
A 2001 study found that 1% of rats with implanted microchips developed
cancerous tumors near the chip location. At least a dozen animal studies have
been done between 1990 and 2007 and most concluded that microchips
significantly increased the risk of cancer at the microchip site.
Soon
we'll all have "cool electronic tattoos!"
This new
device being implanted in hospital patients certainly looks and acts like a
microchip - yet it is persistently being referred to as an "electronic
tattoo" in order to make the concept appear harmless, friendly - even
trendy!
Invasive microchips - is the cost worth the convenience?
Scientists
claim the supposed advantage of the EES chips is their ability to cut back on
the bevy of wires, gel-coated sticky pads and monitors that are currently
relied on to keep track of the vital signs of hospital patients. Apparently
these traditional forms of bulky equipment and monitors are overly
"distressing" to patients.
It appears scientists believe these new microchips are convenient enough that
they outweigh the potential risks…
Is the convenience of not having to manually operate equipment great
enough to justify the implantation of an electronic sensor beneath the skin of
humans? Would you trust a microchip to monitor your bodily functions
without causing health hazards in the process?
The future of America: microchipped zombies
Researchers
believe the technology could be used to replace traditional wires and cables,
but this sounds remarkably like an excuse used to cover up the real truth:
that this new microchipping method is a way to ensure all of us are
eventually microchipped and able to be tracked and monitored. Soon,
everyone will be required to wear chips or "tattoos" that prove
they got their vaccinations, to link to health records, credit history and
social security records.
If the government can require Americans to carry microchipped documents
including your work, financial and health records, it seems it is only a
matter of time before these chips will be implanted for the sake of "convenience"
or "security." According to them, all of this is being done
"for our own good."
Read more and watch videos about the government's agenda to microchip all
humans by 2017 here
Learn more
HEART AND SOUL
WHY YOU CAN NOT GET STEM CELLS IN THE USA
 Barbaric Cardiology exposes the lies of
hundreds of thousands of corrupt doctors who would rather heart patients
continue on their way to an early grave than admit a repair stem cell doctor
is able to successfully treat heart disease when they cannot.
For your copy, email: don@RepairStemCells.org
Put “Barbaric Cardiology” in the subject line, no message needed.
You will receive the constantly updated exposé,
“Barbaric Cardiology,” by return email.
PROFITS BEFORE PATIENTS
Don Margolis, the conspiracy
nut, finds his nutty claims regarding a half million corrupt USA MDs are now
on the front page of NEWSWEEK!
RSCI exposes the PROFITS BEFORE PATIENTS practices of the US
corporate and medical systems in every newsletter. Don Margolis has brought
these corrupt practices to light for years…quite often to the mumbled
condescending responses of “Conspiracy Theorist.” So the only question
remaining is: what kind of conspiracy theorist has his theories published on
the front page of Newsweek Magazine? Perhaps he is a Reality Theorist…or
since he is so far ahead of his time: a Futurist Reality Theorist.
"ONE WORD CAN
SAVE YOUR LIFE: NO!
New research shows how some common tests and procedures aren't just
expensive, but can do more harm than good."
 "Many
doctors don't seem to be getting the message about useless and harmful health
care. Medicare pays them more than $100 million a year for screening
colonoscopies; some 40 percent are for people in whom they will almost
certainly harm more than help. Arthroscopic knee surgery for
osteoarthritis is performed about 650,000 times a year; studies show that it,
too, is no more effective than placebo treatment, yet taxpayers and
private insurers pay for it. And although several large studies, including
the Occluded Artery Trial in 2006, have shown that inserting a stent to prop
open a blocked artery more than 24 hours after a heart attack does not
improve survival rates or reduce the risk of another coronary compared
with drugs alone, the practice continues at a rate of 100,000 such procedures
a year, estimate researchers led by Dr. Judith Hochman, a cardiologist at New
York University.
"We're
killing more people than we're saving with these procedures,"
says UT's Goodwin. "It's as simple as that."
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NEW YORKER MAGAZINE EXPOSES THE UGLY
TRUTH ABOUT PROFITS BEFORE PATIENTS
Question: When was the last major disease CURED in the United
States?
Answer: Polio, 1952.
Since then, nothing.
Why would any capitalistic company actively seek out to reduce
its market by creating a product that made the future use of their products
unnecessary? They wouldn’t. The average 65 year old is on 8-12 prescription
drugs per day. There is more money in treating the ill until they die than
in curing the ill. This is why Big Pharma would rather come up with useless
drug after useless drug that cures nothing, does more harm than good and
creates new illnesses and new clients for their other products.
9/11 - Nothing Strange Happened Today
By David
Granovsky
At 83rd
street I leave my friend's apartment with simple thoughts of Starbucks and a
walk through Central Park in my head. Behind me, the building door slams as
I take a deep breath of the mid-morning air and squint into the bright
sunlight. Something’s shifted. A strange vibe fills the air, a tension that
unnerves and unsettles me. I survey the street. Cars are double parked
haphazardly and a fire house is eerily empty.
At 82nd
street a harried looking woman in the doorway of a hair salon, her hair half
in curlers, smokes a cigarette and wrings her hands simultaneously while
dropping long ashes on her purple plastic cape. I'm drawn to the sound of
the TV in the salon with a dozen people crowded around it. I watch in horror
over hunched shoulders and past craning necks as the images of the first
plane hitting the WTC is rebroadcast. The powerful silence in the room is punctuated
by gasps and groans of ‘oh my god.’
At 81st
street I’m in a panic. My cell is in my hand as I dash down the street. I'm
awkwardly running and calling my parents who live closer to the devastation
later called 'ground zero.’ My call, like so many desperate others', does
not go through. I'm moving downtown fast with my panic and frustration
mixing with the 'all circuits are busy' messages.
At 76th
street surreality sets in. I am the only person moving towards the scene of
destruction. There are thousands of people on the streets and they are all
hurrying away from 'ground zero.' Looks that scream, “are you crazy?” give
me isolated cameo appearances of “New York attitude” amongst a sea of
distressed faces. Flat-bed trucks roll past me going North with men and
women in business suits, their legs hanging off the edge. Some stare at
their shoes, defeated looks on their hung faces...others, engage in the
futile pantomime of curling their cell phones from lap to ear as they try
hopelessly to get through to a loved one.
At 74st
street groups of people hover around parked cars, leaning in through open
windows and listening to radio reports. Block after block, a scene plays
out. The scene is one I’ve seen in countless movies but never appreciated
its implications until now. Manhattan construction workers, grandmothers,
business people and bike messengers, their chaotic myriad daily paths cut
short, discarded and gathered anew into a tight knot around a single point.
Focused together, these eclectic groups of people stand shoulder to shoulder
and hip to hip united in their nationality, geography and a desperate common
interest and need for information.
At 71st
street, a brief glimmer of hope; a connection on my cell that lasts just long
enough to hear my father’s voice utter one indecipherable word before
disconnection. I jerk to a dead stop in the middle of a once busy
intersection, unaware and uncaring that normal laws of pedestrian and
vehicular traffic are no longer in effect. Heart racing, I hit redial
repeatedly, trying to reconnect with my Dad as waves of people immersed in
their own anxieties split around me.
My
surroundings disappear and my non-essential senses flip off as my universe
contracts to dual pin points of vision and hearing. The most significant
elements in my life suddenly tighten to the illuminated digits on my cell
screen, the blinking of the signal bar and the sounds leaking from my cell.
I futilely strain to hear a sound of hope. I try to will sounds from my cell
other than rapid dial tones and ‘no connection’ messages. Unnoticed, the
most common New York City experience takes place as a rushing pedestrian
shoulders past me. I take apathetic notice of the glistening beads of sweat
mixing on my number pad, the sunlight reflecting from a chip in the glass and
the redial button emitting its lonely beep.
I’m passing
65th street and I’m at a full run with my phone deep in my
pocket. I’m breathing heavy and sweat is trickling down my face and chest
and seeping through my shirt. I’m running down the middle of the street
because the sidewalks are packed and the traffic is limited to the occasional
flat bed truck full of people moving slowly uptown.
With my
running and breathing heavy and the dark cloud threatening my head, I don’t
hear my cell until the third ring!
I
frenziedly rip it out of my pocket, clutching tightly to keep it from
squirting out of my slippery sweaty hands.
“Hello?” I
cry into the phone.
“David!
It’s Dad, I’m ok, we’re ok, are you ok!” says my Dad.
“I’m ok!
Where are you?” I ask.
“In New
Jersey…” he responds. They aren't even in the city.
We share
our experiences with each other and the information we have. My mother jumps
into the conversation. “Are you ok?” “Yes, are you ok?” “Are you sure?”
Today, on
September 11th, no one thinks it’s strange to see a grown man
sitting alone on the dirty curb of 64th street, head bent to
almost touching his knees, simultaneously sweating, breathing heavy and
crying with his cell phone pressed to the side of his head in a white clawed
hand. Nothing is strange today.
SUPER
STEMMYS – DORIS AND THE SUPERCELLS
Super
Stemmys, Doris and the Supercells
is the first ever children’s story on stem cells.
A stem
cell named Doris and her stem cell friends must all join forces and work
together to repair an ailing heart and defeat Morbidus the Vile.
100% of the proceeds from sales of
Super Stemmys, Doris and the
Supercells
Go to the Repair Stem Cell
Institute (RSCI) to help patients.
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