RE: How Mesenchymal Stromal Cells are retained in the lungs (scientific shitpost)

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Now all they, (you and the other scientist), need to do is figure out how to get them to get stuck on cancer cells in the lung, or stuck on scar tissue in the lungs and then kill or un-scar the bad parts.



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Actually!

So combining MSC with cancer can be a bit risky, as they can boost the cancer, although people are trying to optimise them for use in cancer therapy. And MSC for lung fibrosis (aka scarred lungs) are already a thing! There's even a phase 1 clinical trial for using MSC to treat COVID.

The main problem is that because they can be derived from so many different tissues and because there is not really a standard for how to grow/use them, it's a bit hard to predict how and if they work in a patient.

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Standardization always seems to be a problem. Heck look at temperature readings around the world people still can not standardize Celsius or Fahrenheit as the reporting number for temperature. In Fahrenheit land 98.6 is normal for a body temperature, I have no clue what the standard temperature is for a body in Luxembourg or Egypt.

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