religiousnessa wrote:
It's a nice potential discovery and I think it was a great idea to write to the researchers to generate some interest in turbinate tissue.  It's important to keep in mind, though, that this was just at the early experimental stages.  For example, note that they're talking about using the stem cells to repair tissue in mice, not humans. I don't think these researchers intend to use it in humans very soon.  I don't mean to discourage you; there is reason to have hope that these technologies will come to fruition.  And it's posssible that doctors elsewhere will start to experiment with this AZA compound in humans a bit sooner, so perhaps we will have opportunities to try it before too long.  But it's important to have realistic expectations about how much work/time it might take to find a cure.  That way, we can keep at it without being discouraged by the inevitable setbacks.
In this article it states:
"We are currently assessing whether adult human fat cells reprogrammed into iMS cells can safely repair damaged tissue in mice, with human trials expected to begin in late 2017."
It is true that we need to keep proper perspectives on the research activities. There is never a guarantee that a new discovery will pan out the way we all want it to. New announcements about discoveries mean that there will be some lag time before the treatments are accessible to us (or just about anybody for that matter). At times some of us forget that it takes awhile to translate a new discovery into something that we can access in a treatment. Alternatively, there has been a lot of speculation and even statements by many scientific researchers that many stem cells treatments are at least 10-15 years away. Nobody can predict when a discovery will happen, but I have seen various references that the technique that this article refers to would not be developed until pretty far into the future and now there is an announcement about a potential breakthrough already. We all want a real cure today, and it is just my opinion, but I think it is reasonable to have realistic hope that we are getting within sight of a very strong treatment.