Sentences with phrase «cell based therapies»

NeuroStemcell is formed to create a world - leading consortium that can take stem cell based therapies for Parkinson's disease (PD) and Huntington's disease (HD) to the clinic.

NeuroStemcell, which comprises 13 academic partners and 2 SMEs and 1 Research Enterprise from 6 European countries and the United States of America, is formed to create a world - leading consortium that can develop stem cell based therapies for Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease toward clinical application... Read more»

What this approval shows is that the readiness of the FDA to work with researchers to move exciting new stem cell based therapies out of the lab and into the clinic.»

Understanding the mechanistic principles underlying the behaviour of stem and progenitor cells is not only pivotal for the development of stem cell based therapies in regenerative medicine, but also gives rise to challenging questions at the frontier of non equilibrium physics.

His special interests include early diagnostic modalities for glaucoma and retinal diseases, advanced medical and surgical procedures for treatment of glaucoma, endoscopic ocular and orbital surgeries, laser therapy for different ocular diseases, special therapies for autoimmune retinal diseases, and stem cell based therapies for blinding ocular diseases.

With this opening, many excellent developmental and cell biologists, geneticists, and physicians have joined the race toward stem cell based therapies.

«This new core laboratory will apply an array of the most promising technologies in the world for controlling stem cell differentiation, delivering stem - cell based therapies, scaling up cell production, and engineering replacement tissues,» said Andrew McCulloch, chair of the Department of Bioengineering.

Genetically engineered fluorescent markers permit the isolation of these stem cells for cell based therapies, as well as their tracking using in vivo imaging to follow their fate.

The whole idea of stem - cell based therapies is that the stem cells could be used to replace or repair cells damaged or destroyed by disease or injury, such as new heart cells for people who have had heart attacks or new neurons for patients with Alzheimer's disease.

This work is important on several levels as it emphasizes the need to carefully define culture conditions and characterize cells that match a relevant in vivo cell type in order to be used for cell based therapies or to eventually generate mini-organoids in vitro to study biology and disease.