Your body contains trillions of cells. Stem cells stand out among the cellular crowd because they’re the only cell type that replicates itself indefinitely and differentiates into specialized cells that can repair damaged tissues.

Stem cell types can be classified by the cells’ source or the cells’ function. Most people are more familiar with stem cell classification by source:

• Embryonic (pluripotent) stem cells. These cells have the power to become any cell type. Medical researchers obtain embryonic stem cells from embryos developed during in vitro fertilization.
• Tissue-specific (multipotent, oligopotent or unipotent) stem cells.These cells can make new stem cells for the tissue in which they live. For example, blood-forming stem cells in your bone marrow or cord blood can make new blood cells and platelets. Multipotent mesnechymal stem/stromal cell (MSC) are present in almost all tissues of body and therefore can regenerate and repair many damaged tissues.
• Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). These are lab-made stem cells that resemble and act like embryonic stem cells. Medical researchers use these cells to study how tissues develop and how disease affects tissue, and to test new drugs and treatments.

Stem cell is a cell with the ability to self-renew over a long time and multilineage differentiation to give rise to specialized cells, such as muscle cells, blood cells, and brain cells.

We believe we are entering a new era of cell therapy. The ability to use healthy cells as medicines provides new tools to meaningfully change the outcome of many human diseases.

Health-Biotech JISHI (H&B JISHI) is developing off-the-shelf innovative cellular medicines for the treatment of a broad range of severe and life-threatening diseases.