David Weldon: “I rise again to set the record straight. There have been some people who have implied there is limited capacity for…”

“I rise again to set the record straight. There have been some people who have implied there is limited capacity for these cord blood stems to be used successfully. They have been shown to be pluripotent. They can become all different cell types, and they have shown a tremendous amount of plasticity. This poster is of a young lady who was paralyzed for years and had an adult stem cell transplant. She is able to stand up. But I just want to clarify on the cord blood, it has been used to treat leukemia, adrenoleukodystrophy, Burkitt's lymphoma, chronic granulomatous diseases, congenital neutropenia, DiGeorge's syndrome, Fanconi's anemia, and these are just some of them, Gaucher's disease. Hodgkin's disease, cord blood has been used successfully to treat Hodgkin's disease; idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, which is a really bad disease. I used to see some of those. Krabbe's disease I mentioned earlier, that was just in the New England Journal this month. Lymphoma; lymphoproliferative syndrome; myelofibrosis; neuroblastoma, which is a form of brain tumor which has been successfully treated with cord blood. Osteopetrosis has been successfully treated. Reticular dysgenesis, severe aplastic anemia. The list goes on and on. There are 65 different medical conditions that have been successfully treated with cord blood. People have mentioned diabetes.…”