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Comparing the Number of Cells in Regenexx Procedures to the Rest…

You may not know that when it comes to living stem cell procedures that almost all doctors use simple bedside machines. So this morning I’ll educate you on that process and compare the number of cells we use in our stem cell procedures to everyone else. Let’s dive in. What is a Living Stem Cell…read more

The Blind Leading the Blind… We Have an Academia Regen Med Problem

We have a big problem looming in regenerative medicine. There is a serious lack of knowledge in academia about the science, and more importantly a lack of clinical experience. This means that much of the published research studies in this area often have rookie mistakes that negatively impact the field. I’ll give a few examples…read more

Does Knee Arthritis Severity Impact Stem Cell Treatment Outcome?

For so many therapies used to treat knee arthritis, the best way to determine if a specific therapy will help is the severity of the disease. Meaning that less severe knee arthritis responds better than the more severe forms of the disease. However, one of the things we’ve observed about our same day bone marrow…read more

The Stiffness of Stem Cells Turns Out to Be a Big Deal…

Because our cells are smaller than we can see with the naked eye, ideas like cell stiffness seem foreign to us. However, it turns out that if a stem cell is stiff or squishy plays a major role in how it functions in the body. This morning we’ll dive into some new research that shows…read more

Can the Organelles in Our Cells Get Injured? Mitochondrial Rescue

You know that your body has organs and that these can be injured by trauma. But did you know that your cells have organs that can be damaged the same way? Today I’ll review a new field of stem cell biology that may well form the basis for why some of our existing treatments work…read more

Do Someone Else’s Stem Cells Cause a Rejection Response?

One of the rock-solid assumptions of an entire industry of donor stem cell companies seeking FDA approval is the idea that stem cells are immune privileged. This is a fancy way of stating that someone’s stem cells when injected or implanted in your body cause no immune response. However, as I’ve blogged before, there have…read more

The Knee Stem Cell Reserve: Keeping It Topped Up

I’ve been snapping slides while at the Havemeyer CSU symposium that catch my eye and this is a great one. Above you’ll see a summary of all of the areas where the stem and progenitor cells live in the knee. Even though I’ve read most of these studies before, seeing it all in one place…read more

CSU Havemeyer Symposium on Orthobiologics

I’m at the CSU Havemeyer Symposium on orthobiologics this morning. This marks the opening of the C. Wayne McIlwraith Translational Medicine Institute (TMI). How does all of this intersect with what I do? Our Work with CSU Way back when in 2004, I wanted to begin using mesenchymal stem cells to treat our patients with…read more