A British Life Saved By Japanese Stem Cells

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The headlines are screaming with the news that a toddler who had been suffering from a rare form of cancer has been saved by being given a transplant from stem cells saved from a Japanese woman's umbilical cord blood stem cells. The two-year-old British toddler had been given less than a 40% chance of survival after most of Europe and America have been scoured for suitable tissue donors in the hopes of providing a turnaround for the toddler's chances of survival. Unbelievable as it may seem, physicians discovered a perfect match for the toddler among stem cells that had been harvested and stored from the umbilical cord blood of a mother in Tokyo, Japan.
The British toddler had been diagnosed with a form of acute myeloid leukemia, which is extremely rare. To make matters worse, the toddler's bone marrow had been extremely difficult to match among potential donors on both the European and American continents. The stem cells that had been frozen in a Japanese laboratory were the only match in the world that came even close to the young Briton toddler's blood profiles.

The excitement generated by this procedure helps to exemplify the importance of developing research in non-embryonic stem cell research as well as an increased proliferation in blood stem cell banks that are growing increasingly popular throughout the world. The child's mother described the bone marrow transplant that her daughter underwent as a miracle at the Bristol Royal Hospital in Britain.

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