Lab-grown meat, stem cell vaccines for cancer and a free kidney atlas for all

Should we thank scientists and researchers for bringing a huge transformation in the medical science? Of course yes! The revolution in the stem cell function and their applications in removing different genetic disorders or bringing a wide range of drug therapies through clinical trials are paving ways to make a disease free world.

Every day, we get to know some unheard achievements of medical realms, all because of stem cells and their unique potential abilities. Now, once again stem cells are in the limelight for enabling some unprecedented things to come true and fulfill our unmet demands of ages.

Engineered Meat

Let us first start with some hopes for livestock. Every day, those of us who are not a vegan know how does it feel to have it from the animal activist group? Their shouts and demands for ‘stop killing the animals’ do fall hard on us, but we cannot escape it. Still, we keep on chomping on a good number of non-veg items. It is tough to diminish our dependence on the livestock as well.

What if we could have tackled this matter of conscience with decisive and smart steps?  It would have been possible if we had found some alternative to this. Well, the lab-grown or engineered meat can be a substitute to this problem, and they are eyeing to remove the process of ‘’kill-it-grill-it” eating methods of humans.

Two startups FinlessFoods and Just for All have their own lab to engineer meat out of stem cells to be used in many delicacies. Though scientists were engaged in engineering these so-called meats for long, these two startups have been successful to produce lab-grown meat, and found a cost-effective way to take those to market. They are a good way to eliminate our dependency on livestock. And with this, we can hope to end the culture of animal killing for eating.

Just for All- the startup has three items available for eating such as nuggets, chorizo and foie gras. All these are made of clean meat processed with stem cells. On the other hand, Finless Foods used cellular biology to produce fish meat using progenitor cells from fish meats. However, it still remains in shadow if it could change our eating habit?

Kidney Atlas

Another groundbreaking achievement involving stem cells is a free kidney atlas. With this free kidney atlas, it is possible for scientists to focus more on the development process of kidney structure between animals and humans so as to develop stem-cell based technologies. This will help us model human kidneys more accurately and find best and effective treatments faster. We can have access to high resolution images from the atlas, which represent different structures of developing human kidneys.

Cancer Vaccines Using iPSCs

iPSCs could aid in the development of cancer vaccines one day. It seems true because iPSCs share the same features as the cancer cells along with their genetic expressions. In addition to this, both the cells go through an immature development stage. Due to these features, it is possible to develop cancer vaccines using iPSCs. Researchers at the Stanford University of School of Medicine transplanted breast cancer cells into mice and administered them with iPSCs. Gradually, it found that iPSCs were capable of reducing the formation of tumors.

The future possibilities seem to be very promising for us.  And we are really eager to welcome this as soon as possible.