Stem cells can give birth to all types of cells in our body: Heart, muscles A great deal of research is underway worldwide. But despite this research, the number of stem cell treatments is still small
A few days before the 20th edition of the Téléthon, the controversy between the Association française contre les myopathies (AFM) and the Catholic Church has risen a notch. The Church questions the use of the funds raised for research on embryonic stem cells and the screening of sick embryos during in vitro fertilization, which she considers contrary to Christian ethics. This opposition worries the Telethon officials, who fear the repercussions on donations. Commentary on illustration images (laboratory, cells under the microscope) alternating with the interviews of Michel DUBOST, bishop of Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes, and René FRYDMAN, gynecology-obstetric service reproductive medicine, Hôpital Béclère.
France has decided to focus on medical stem cell research with the inauguration of an industrial site in the Ulis, near Paris. Comment on images of this public laboratory, alternating with the interview of Pierre Noel LIRSAC, CEO of Cellforcure.
The cord blood contains stem cells that save patients with serious illnesses. The law allows the anonymous donation of this cord to patients all over the world, but parents cannot keep this sample in case a disease occurs in their own family. Damien MESLOT, MNA UMP Territoire-de-Belfort, proposes to change this law by authorizing private banks. Comment on images of a donor birth and researchers working at the hospital Saint-Louis (Paris) punctuated by interviews with Zohra HAMICI, donor mother, Damien MESLOT and Marc BENBUMAN, hospital Saint-Louis.
The French medical teams are multiplying their achievements with regard to cell therapy. After the cardiac cell transplant, a team from the Henri Mondort hospital in Créteil succeeded in transplanting neurons from embryos resulting from in vitro fertilization, both for Parkinson’s patients and for another genetic condition, Huntington’s disease. Testimony of Michel RIFFAULT, who has had Parkinson’s disease for 25 years and his wife.
The first French baby medicine was born at the hospital Antoine Beclere in Clamart on January 26. This embryo transfer technique will allow her sister with a genetic disease to be treated. Excerpt from the press conference of Nelly FRYDMAN, laboratory FIV Necker-Paris Hospital, about the fertilization technique and interview of professor René FRYDMAN, maternity Antoine Béclère de Clamart about medical techniques. Voice-over comment on images of maternity and laboratory (in vitro fertilization).
A new treatment for breast cancer based on medullary cells is being tested at the Institut Paoli Calmette in Marseille. Comment on images taken at the institute alternating with interviews of a patient and a doctor.
A team of French researchers has for the first time carried out the identification of stem cells. The latter are particularly capable of reconstructing the epidermis, hair and hair. This discovery opens up important perspectives in cosmetology, dermatology and cancer. Comment on images shot in the laboratory and interview of Yann BARRANDON of the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
The National Ethics Committee has ruled in favour of therapeutic cloning, but the views of the members of that same committee that the government is seized with on this issue remain divided. This practice poses ethical problems. Explanation on graphic images (laboratory drawings, infographics) of this technique and interviews with Denys PELLERIN and Axel KAHN, members of the National Ethics Committee.
Lionel JOSPIN presented the National Ethics Advisory Committee with a draft bill authorizing embryo research under certain conditions and prohibiting reproductive cloning. Excerpt from Lionel JOSPIN’s statement and commentary on laboratory images and explanatory drawings.
French researchers have just transformed human embryonic stem cells into epidermis. Hope for burn victims who must receive skin cover to avoid infections. Commentary on images of researchers working at the Genopole d'Evry (Essonne) and microscope views alternating with interviews with Xavier NISSA, researcher Institute I-STEM and Marc PESCHANSKY, director of the I-STEM Institute.
A team of French researchers has succeeded in manufacturing large quantities of red blood cells from stem cells grown in the laboratory. A discovery that could eventually make up for the lack of donors. The commentary on images of scientists working in the laboratory, of an operation in a hospital and blood donation, alternates with the interview of Marie-Catherine GIARRATANA, of the laboratory Hématologie CHU of Saint-Antoine, and Luc DOUAY, of the hematology department of the hospital Trousseau (Paris).
A bill currently under discussion in the Senate on bioethics could authorize research on embryos. Human cloning will remain prohibited. Meeting with Jean-Noël, a pioneer in cell therapy following a heart attack treated by Professor Philippe MENASCHE who explains the need to explore the potential of embryonic stem cells. An evocation of the ethical questions surrounding this subject, contested by opponents to the manipulation of the embryo. Alternating commentary on filming images and infographics, and interviews with Professor Philippe MENASCHE (surgeon), Dr Jacques HATZFELD, CNRS and Béatrice JOUANNE, member of an association of patients.
While MEPs consider a proposal for legislation to reinstate, in a framed manner, research on embryos, a report to I-STEM, Institute of Strain Cells for the Treatment and Study of Monogenic Diseases, which up until now had been granted a waiver to be able to study stem cells. Commentary on images from the laboratory, interviews with Cécile MARTINAT, research manager INSERM, I-STEM, Marc PESCHANSKI, research director I-STEM and Jean-Philippe WOOLF, Cochin Hospital (AP-HP), Paris.
A team from the hospital Saint-Antoine in Paris managed to create and manufacture human blood from stem cells and even transfused it, a world first. It took six years of efforts by French researchers to produce some human blood. They took a donor of bone marrow stem cells and cultured them for three weeks to get a hundred billion red blood cells and put them back into the donor’s body: a successful experiment. Professor Luc DOUAY, researcher at the Inserm: "these red blood cells, once injected into humans, behave in the same way as the red blood cells injected during a conventional transfusion. So this is a formal demonstration that these red blood cells are functional. ' This is a breakthrough. Until now, all attempts at artificial blood transfusion have been unsuccessful. There are other steps that have to be taken. The experiment has been successful in self-transfusion. You now have to get a transfusion with two separate people. You don’t know how to make blood in large quantities. Marie Catherine GIARRATANA, research engineer at the Pierre and Marie Curie University: "It will take another 5 to 10 years, if only for the development of new technological tools. We’re working on it, so meet in 7-10 for the first massive productions." A hope. But in the meantime, blood donation will remain the only resource for transfusions. 500,000 people are transfused every year in France. We need 9000 blood bags a day.
An update on the work of several research laboratories on tooth regeneration: the tooth that is repaired alone by the injection of a new molecule, and for the most damaged teeth the use of stem cells that allow the reconstitution of a tooth in its entirety. Commentary on images of dental care and infographics from interviews with Jean-Michel SAUTIER, professor, surgeon-dentist and researcher at INSERM, and Ariane BERDAL, dentist and laboratory director INSERM.
Update on medical research to treat heart attacks. Example with a patient treated at the CHU de Montpellier, zoom on scientific advances at the Centre de recherche de biochimie macromoléculaire de Montpellier, and finally, mention of the French ban on working on the human embryo, which considerably impedes research. Commentary on images shot at the CHU and in a Montpellier laboratory, and on infographics, alternating with the testimony of a patient with heart failure and the interviews of Christophe PIOT, cardiologist at the CHU de Montpellier and Michel PUCEAT, CNRS Montpellier.
Update on scientific research on embryos in France, while a report on the subject has just been submitted to the European Union. Comments on images of experiments at the Cecos laboratory of the hospital COCHIN alternating with interviews with Noëlle LENOIR, president of the European ethics group, Jean François MATTEI, DL member and rapporteur of the bioethics bill and Marc PESCHANSKI, director of the INSERM 421 research unit.
At the Clinique Saint Luc de Besançon, the parents of the child Bernard Gros gave of their bone marrow to save their son, suffering from leukemia. The child received it intravenously.
The bioethics act now allows the importation of human embryonic stem cells. Explanations of the technique used by researchers on infographics and interviews of René FRYDMAN, in vitro fertilization unit Antoine Béclère Hospital (Clamart), and Philippe DOUSTE BLAZY Minister of Health and Social Protection. Comments on scientists working in a Clamart laboratory and microscopes views.