So many promising ventures! MIT spinout Frequency Therapeutics’ drug candidate stimulates the growth of hair cells in the inner ear. The biotechnology company Frequency Therapeutics is seeking to reverse hearing loss — not with hearing aids or implants, but with a new kind of regenerative therapy. The company uses small molecules to program progenitor cells, a descendant of stem cells in the inner ear, to create the tiny hair cells that allow us to hear. Full Article: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy
JonBubo, thanks so much for completing the real picture with regards to this story. It's a long road, but hopefully someday these trials and successes can help.
Huh. Old thread, but I'm gonna have to comment here Recently, before my vertigo issues got worse, I had started on a course of fixing my orthopaedic injuries with Regenexx That is, the largest and best chain of places that do stem cells and PRP shots. From what I can tell, it all DOES absolutely work. The only reason the "data is inconclusive" is most other researchers don't realize that there's a ton of medicines you have to be not taking for these things to work. Statins, NSAIDs, blood thinners, blood pressure medicines, etc. all interfere with the process There's multiple biologics they can produce from your body. PRP, BMAC (stem cells), PPP (platelet POOR plasma), and PLATELET LYSATE. They use some mix of these when treating injuries. PLATELET LYSATE is used around nerves. It's the one that's mild enough to use around nerves. If you have a bulging disc, they hydrodissect the nerve with an injection of platelet lysate, and this actually induces the body to eat away at the bulging part of the disc. IDEA HERE tl;dr ************************************ So I was thinking, maybe they could inject into the inner ear platelet lysate, perhaps with hyaluronic acid or thickeners. This may actually work to perform some regeneration