«If we win, the entire regulatory structure for
autologous cell processing, with or without culture, will be rewritten such that any physician using good practices and treating patients responsibly can use stem cells as part of his or her medical practice,» he says.
Not exact matches
Making personalized, or «
autologous» stem -
cell treatments, can make the
process go a lot faster, since a person's
cells don't need to be shipped out, reprogrammed, then reinserted into the body.
Patients treated with
processed autologous adipose - derived regenerative
cells (ADRCs) injected into the heart muscle demonstrated symptomatic improvement and a trend towards lower rates of heart failure hospitalizations and angina, despite no improvement in left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) or ventricular volumes.
The technique involves replacing a mutated copy of the gene with a healthy copy in stem
cells isolated from the patient, which are then transfused back into the body — a
process known as
autologous stem
cell transplantation.
Autologous cell therapies require a fundamentally different manufacturing approach, and we did not identify any DSTs designed specifically for such
processes.