CHARLESTON,S.C. – President Obama has lifted the Bush administration’s limits on embryonic stem cell research,and while the controversy over the use of embryonic stem cells receives a great deal of attention,one Charleston facility offers adults an opportunity to collect and store adult stem cells.
Cenegenics Carolinas,located in Charleston,S.C.,is the only facility in the Carolinas to offer this service. Cenegenics,a preventive health and age management medical institute,has partnered with AssureImmune,based in Boca Raton,Fla.,one of only three companies in the U.S. that collects and preserves adult stem cells,to offer this service to their patients. By teaming up with AssureImmune,Cenegenics can help its patients improve the health of their stem cells before they are collected.
“Embryonic stem cells get most of the media attention,but adults need to understand they can have their healthy adult stem cells collected and stored for future use,” says Dr. Mickey Barber,CEO of Cenegenics Carolinas. “The benefit is these are your stem cells and you can use them at any point down the road in the treatment of disease or illness. There’s no question or controversy about how the stem cells were collected because they are you own.”
Adult stem cells are nature’s master repair cells and are produced in the marrow,regenerate our blood and immune system and circulate throughout our tissues and organs,seeking and repairing damaged and diseased cells. Adult stem cell transplants from bone marrow or cord blood have been used by physicians for more than 40 years to treat debilitating conditions like leukemia,anemias and immune system dysfunctions. Today,there are more than 2,000 clinical trials under way in the U.S. for the treatment of heart disease,cancer,diabetes and orthopedic conditions.
AssureImmune collects adult stem cells,a relatively new technology,from the peripheral blood of adults and older children,as well as stem cells from the cord blood of newborns. As one of the few stem cell banks in the world to use automated,computer-controlled equipment for processing and storage of the samples,AssureImmune is able to recover more viable stem cells from each sample. Additionally,they are the only company who produces duplicate samples and stores them at two different locations for back-up security. For more information,visit www.assureimmune.com.
About Cenegenics Carolinas
Cenegenics Carolinas is a Charleston-based medical institute that helps patients manage the aging process through a customized regimen of exercise,nutrition and hormone optimization to improve their quality of life and help them feel healthy and years younger than their age. Headed by CEO Mickey Barber,MD,a board-certified anesthesiologist and former assistant professor at Tulane University,Cenegenics Carolinas is one of only seven Cenegenics centers in the country. For more information,call 843-724-7272 or visit www.cenegenics-carolinas.com.
