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Date:7/8/2008

iately surrounding tissue that were not easily explained by volume replacement alone. As the patient heals from fat grafting, doctors noticed that fat placed next to bone seemed to take on the characteristics of bone, and fat placed into the muscle began to take on the characteristics of muscle. "In fact, it was and is consistently observed that the transplanted fat did not feel like isolated collections of fat, but remarkably, rather more like the recipient-site tissue into which it had been transplanted," said Ellenbogen.

Enter Dr. Peter Rubin, a co-founder of the International Federation of Adipose Therapeutics and Science. "The work we're doing today was very much inspired by the successful history of fat grafting by plastic surgeons such as Dr. Ellebogen," said Dr. Rubin. "We are now taking these adipose stem cells and proving that they can learn to be just about any type of tissue in the human body including skin, bone, muscle, nerve, liver and cardiac (heart) muscle."

The research is revealing major implications for the future of reconstructive and plastic surgery as well as the world of medicine at large. "We are looking to repair body parts lost to cancer and even re-generate parts for soldiers and accident survivors. The research is really promising," concluded Dr. Rubin.

Today, it is known that there are approximately one million stem cells in two teaspoons of fat. While there are techniques being employed by surgeons in the U.S. to enrich the stem cells in the fat, other companies are using technology in Europe and Asia to harvest pure concentrations of stem cells directly from the fat. The harvested stem cells are remixed with a smaller portion of fat resulting in a graft that is "supercharged" with stem cells. It is ho
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