By Adolfo Andrade 1. Stem cell research has come a long way and now we are talking about state-of-the-art techniques for stem cell...

By Dr. Adolfo Andrade English/Spanish HiExpat: Thank you very much Doctor Andrade for your collaboration with the seventh edition of HiExpat magazine. We are very excited to share with our readers about the medical developments you have been working on here in Ecuador. How long ago did they discover that our own body could generate cells that help heal or improve our quality of life? Dr. Andrade: Stem cells were discovered in 1952. They are created by taking bone marrow from the hip bone, the...