For a while now I have known about the existence of a type of bank known as stem cell banks, which are used to store and preserve the multipotent abilities of a person’s endogenous based cells. The billionaire Mark Cuban has called this type of “medical emergency insurance” as one of the best gifts that you can give to your children. There are probably hundreds of these banks that are around the world currently. Most people in the general public probably don’t see the long term benefits of getting something like this done. It is quite expensive to use this service, which may never be needed at all.

I keep up with many of the online sources which talk about the latest developments in biotech. One source I found linked to the 1st and largest stem cell bank in India, ReeLabs. These guys have figured out and optimized the way that stem cels can be harvested from the placenta, the amniotic sac, and the amniotic fluid. Now, technically Reelabs do not offer stem cell therapy (because they are just the bank, not a clinic), but they did show the possibility when they revealed that Stem Cell Therapy can be used in bone disorders. The only type of bone disorder that the website listed was Achondroplasia.

As we know, Achondroplasia is the most common disorder that causes severe short stature. There are dozens of types and forms of Achondroplasia. We here have studied this disorder extensively. Reelabs has categorized and defined Achondroplasia as a treatable bone disorder, using the stem cell technology. When you have this revolutionary technique compared to the conventional approach, you realize that THERE IS NO Conventional approach.

Refer to Reelab’s webpage on Achondraplasia here.

Some key things to remember

• The term “Achondroplasia” is used to for both adults with close plates and children with open plates. This is in difference to the way Acromegaly and Gigantism are defined
• Most likely, when Reelabs say that stem cell therapy can treat achondroplasia, they are most likely referring to children with open growth plates

Now, for some people who read our website regularly, the idea of injecting stem cells into cartilage to make it expand doesn’t seem that big of a leap, but the truth is that I personally have not found one PubMed study which have ever validated this idea. It was always guessed to be possible, but there hasn’t been a group of researchers who tried this and published positive results.

The closest any paper came to doing this was the idea of Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation ACI). An induced injury is done to the growth plates on rabbits and some part of the growth plate cartilage is severely damaged or chipped away. The implantation of some outside sources of cartilage, chondrocyte, or stem cells showed that the growth plate cartilage managed to regenerate. No study or group has come out and said that stem cell injections can cause cartilages to expand.

Since these guys say that it is possible, and maybe also been tested somewhere to get the technique to become optimized, it validates one of the last steps that we really need to get the technique to work on adults with closed growth plates. The shift from open growth plates to close growth plates involves a precursor step, the one where a step distraction is done to the bone and cartilage is implanted in between.

Of course, I had already proved the idea that growth plate cartilage transplantation was viable from the works by Teplyashin’s team and the collaboration by Ballock and Alsberg.