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How do scientists grow stem cells in the right conditions? How can stem cells treat disease? When most people think about about stem cells treating disease they think of a stem cell transplant. In a stem cell transplant, embryonic stem cells are first specialized into the necessary adult cell type. Then, those mature cells replace tissue that is damaged by disease or injury. This type of treatment could be used to: replace neurons damaged by spinal cord injury, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease or other neurological problems; produce insulin that could treat people with diabetes and heart muscle cells that could repair damage after a heart attack; or replace virtually any tissue or organ that is injured or diseased. But embryonic stem cell-based therapies can do much more. Studying how stem cells develop into heart muscle cells could provide clues about how we could induce heart muscle to repair itself after a heart attack. The cells could be used to study disease, identify new drugs, or screen drugs for toxic side effects. Any of these would have a significant impact on human health without transplanting a single cell. What diseases could be treated by stem cell research? In theory, there’s no limit to the types of diseases that could be treated with stem cell research. Given that researchers may be able to study all cell types via embryonic any disease. stem cells, they have the potential to make breakthroughs in How can I learn more about CIRM-funded stem cell research in a particular disease? CIRM has created disease pages for many of the major diseases being targeted by stem cell scientists. You can find those disease pages here. You can also sort our complete list of CIRM awards to see what we've funded in different disease areas. What cell therapies are available right now? Many clinical trials for embryonic stem cell-based therapies have begun in recent years. Results from those won't be available until the trials reveal that the therapies are safe and While ten cell therapies have been approved around the world as of January 2016, the only widely used stem cell-based therapy is bone marrow transplantation. Blood-forming stem cells in the bone marrow were the first stem cells to be identified and were the first to be used in the clinic. This life-saving technique has helped thousands people worldwide who had been suffering from blood cancers, such as leukemia. In addition to their current use in cancer treatments, research suggests that effective—which could take a few years. bone marrow transplants will be useful in treating autoimmune diseases and in helping people tolerate transplanted organs. Other therapies based on adult stem cells are currently in clinical trials. Until those trials are complete we won't know which type of stem cell is most effective in treating different diseases