Japanese stem cells ‘r’ us
Would you buy a face-lift from this guy? He looks like a healing burn victim….which of course is what he is like since he technique is forcing tissue regrowth.
Trying to iron out all the wrinkles
—A Japanese dentist claims stem cell treatment is just around the corner—
The Japan Times Online -Oct. 24, 2006
…Minoru Ueda, a dentist…professor at Nagoya University, says his work is about to go commercial. His first successful patient, he says, was himself. And if you look at his face, there is hardly a wrinkle in sight.
…He startled this year’s annual conference of the International Association of Dental Research … the technique, which involves scraping gingival tissue from inside the mouth, cultivating stem cells from it and then re-injecting the cultured cells in strategic places….
Accord to the Japan Times report professor Ueda wants to go into big-time money business of a Tokyo a tissue-engineering center next year and and the rest of Asia as soon as possible.
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