New Era for iPS Cells: Infinite Possibilities for Healing, Even Anti-AgingNew Era for iPS Cells: Infinite Possibilities for Healing

[Farooqji]

The issue is cost. According to the iPS Cell Research Foundation of Kyoto University, which stores and supplies cells, it costs about ￥40 million JPY (about $370,000 USD) to produce iPS cells from the blood of one healthy person.

It then costs between ￥60 million and ￥100 million JPY ($550,000 to about $1 million USD) to transform these into various types of cells for transplantation into one person.

This high cost arises because work is done completely by hand and requires an enormous amount of time. The foundation is hurrying to automate and streamline the production process and hopes to reduce the cost of the entire process from creation to transformation to about ￥3 million JPY ($28,000 USD) by 2025.

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[kevowpd]

How do you see IPSC panning out for PD, Farooqji?

[Farooqji in reply to kevowpd]

Well my only hope in the current scenario is the stem cell treatment. Hopefully it will be available on commercial basis by 2025. The literature which I have gone through, shows that although not a cure, it will considerably bring the symptomatic relief (reverse the condition to at least 5 years back) . The question, how long a single graft will last cannot be definitely answered, but the rough estimate is 10 years or so. I see it the only hope in the current scenario

[kevowpd in reply to Farooqji]

Thanks! I could handle going in every decade for a top up, finances and conceptual framework permitting.