Dr. Ricardo Rueda, specialist physician at Reprotec Fertility Center, congratulates scientists at the University of Oregon for creating for the first time, embryonic stem cells by cloningNews given on May 16.
The news given today by scientists at the University of Oregon at its Primate Research Center, which is one of the leading research institutions in the United States, is of vital importance for the scientific world, especially for those of us who work on the subject of regenerative medicine. The fact of being able to clone cells of the human body, from a cell of the skin, injecting its nucleus into a human egg, makes the possibilities of creating cells of different tissues a reality and practically infinite possibilities. It is, perhaps the first time, since the news of the cloning of the Dolly sheep by Scottish groups, that news of this style is given, to create adult, mature stem cells, from non-embryonic stem cells, this means that there is no need to create human embryos for From these, get the stem cells. This last issue has been a subject of high controversy by different groups in the world, and I believe that this finding by researchers at the University of Oregon is beginning to put an end to this controversy.
For regenerative medicine, for medicine dedicated to transplants, for cancer treatments, for an infinity of possibilities, the regeneration of skin in burned patients, in short, a whole series of examples we can cite, in which the application of this finding has enormous potential. In the fertility centers, particularly at Reprotec Fertility Center of the Santa Fe Foundation in Bogotá, which enjoys the prestige of being one of the best centers in Latin America and in the Western Hemisphere due to its fantastic results in human reproduction, we received this news with great optimism and We hope in a very short period of time, being able to be part of regenerative medicine procedures, as we are already doing in cancer patients, with all our fertility preservation alternatives in these patients. In such a way that we applaud our colleagues from the University of Oregon, we join the joy and happiness that the scientific world has today, to show the speed at which these systems of regenerative medicine go, and it is for us a very important day in the scientific community, this news that we have had. Thank you very much.
Dr. Ricardo Rueda Reprotec Allied Fertility Center of the Santa Fe Foundation of Bogotá.