Why does Britannia use liposuctioned fat rather than bone marrow as a source of stem cells?
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In bone marrow aspiration (one of the most painful procedures in medicine), we get about 5,000-60,000 cells which are then cultured for several days to grow to a few million cells before transplantation (injection into the patient).
The recent advances in stem cell science have resulted in a large number of very high quality multi-potent (capable of forming many other tissues) stem cells of a person's own fat from liposuction. Britannia uses technology to process fat to produce stem cells by approximately 100 to 200cc of fat, and therefore, it is possible to obtain as many as 100 to 200 million stem cells from one treatment. These fat-derived stem cells can form many cell types of cells when transplanted correctly, including bone, cartilage, tendon (connective tissue), muscle, blood vessels, nerve tissue and others.
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