Are Stem Cells Dangerous? The Truth About Cancer Risk

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]I know this is probably a difficult question, or it might be, but because they can turn into any cell, is there potential risk of cancer? No.

[00:00:10]Title of my lecture was mu cells, cells with pluripotency, meaning they can almost form any cell without any tumorigenicity. So, the mu cell does not have high amounts of what we call telomerase, which is a basically something that it it keeps the telo- telomeres from shortening. They don't have much telomerase, number one, and and they don't have the ability to really form tumors. They don't form teratomas or anything like that. Now, there's another cell that's similar, IPS cell, induced pluripotent stem cells.

[00:00:40]And one of the problems we find with those is they can form tumors. So, I think that mu cells are going to replace those cells. Now, we're going to use those cells still to do drug studies and things like that, but I I you know, they're still using used clinically, but I think mu cells are going to take their place. Much safer cell. Why would you want to do something that potentially could be a cancer cell? Yeah, more and more these days I hear people who are thinking about getting whatever, like uh plasma or stem cells or anything like that, talk about, "Well, how do you know that the person who they came from is clean?" You know, you even hear people nowadays talking about, like, you know, "Was that person vaccinated?"

[00:01:18]>> Like protein. Absolutely. I I'm I'm asked that a lot of times. Yeah. So, uh what do you do about that? Well, you know, you basically have to go by the laboratory. And in this case, we're using, you know, the I I think the number one uh source right there that we're using from Dr. the the Waza herself. So, there you are.