This spotlight on cell therapy regulation will aim to provide insight into challenges, trends, developments and debates in the regulation of
cell therapies aimed at regenerative medicine applications.
Not exact matches
Human Longevity has already received $ 70 million in private backing and
aims to use both genomics and stem
cell therapies to allow us to live longer, healthier lives.
They rule out selective abortion of defective fetuses, and they focus our attention on
therapies aimed at somatic
cells rather than germ
cells.
With this distinction in mind some have drawn a line between intervention
aimed at somatic
cell therapy and intervention
aimed at germ
cell therapy.
Researchers at the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB), an NSF Science and Technology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, study plants like this Arabidopsis thaliana to learn how molecules,
cells and tissues integrate mechanics within plant and animal biology, with the
aim of creating new materials, biomedical
therapies and agricultural technologies.
Most cancer
therapies are
aimed at halting cancer growth by stopping
cells from rapidly dividing.
Investigations
aimed at determining the downstream targets of LIF would help to clarify the functional importance of LIF in muscle regeneration, and further its potential application in
cell transplantation
therapy.»
A new wave of potential immune
therapies aims to target the network of complex sugars that coat cancer
cells, Esther Landhuis reported in «Cancer's sweet cloak» (SN: 4/1/17, p. 24).
Clinical trials that charge enrollees to participate are ostensibly
aimed at giving patients early access to promising
therapies — often in the fields of stem
cells or aging reversal — that are too unusual or have too little profit potential to get funding from traditional sources such as companies, foundations, or the National Institutes of Health.
The
aim of most anticancer
therapies is to eradicate all cancer
cells from the body so that the cancer can not regrow.
«Now that we've identified where the replication - competent virus is hiding, we can start work towards targeting these
cells with new
therapies aimed at fully eliminating HIV from the body,» Associate Professor Palmer concluded.
«Identifying targets essential to
cell survival in tumor suppressor genes has long been an investigational goal with the
aim of offering cancer - specific vulnerabilities for targeted
therapy,» said Ronald DePinho, M.D., professor of Cancer Biology, MD Anderson president, and senior author for the Nature paper.
«This groundbreaking study sets the stage for more exacting research, using the latest genomic technologies and
aimed at developing new
therapies that could help the tens of thousand of patients who urgently need our help,» said Dr. Nhan Tran, an Associate Professor of TGen's Cancer and
Cell Biology Division and the study's other co-senior author.
«New way to unmask melanoma
cells to the immune system: Lab studies show promise for a clinical trial
aimed at improving current immune
therapies.»
The scientists in Augustin's laboratory consequently pursued preclinical tumor
therapy experiments, which were
aimed at not just blocking angiogenesis, but to also suppress the production of tumor - promoting growth factors in endothelial
cells.
A gene -
therapy technique that
aims to prevent mothers from passing on harmful genes to children through their mitochondria — the
cell's energy - producing structures — might not always work.
Taken together, these observation impinge on one central problem: the development of rational targeting strategies
aimed at overcoming therapeutic resistance require the precise elucidation of the molecular mechanisms whereby carcinoma
cells that undergo EMT acquire the functional traits that render them resistant to conventional
therapy.
It is also funding research
aimed at a stem
cell - based
therapy for Parkinson's disease that is expected to lead to a clinical trial.
The strategy developed by research teams and development of I - Stem
aims to identify innovative
therapies applicable to rare genetic diseases based on exploring the potential offered by human pluripotent stem
cells.
It
aims at producing
cell lines that are to be broadly available for manufacturing
cell therapies matching the widest possible number of récipients.
Her
aim is to understand, at the molecular level, the mechanisms that control communication between the brain, immune system, and blood vessels — with the ultimate goal of designing new
therapies that slow, stop, or reverse the progression of a wide range of neurological disorders, such as MS. Recently, Dr. Akassoglou's lab identified how microglia — a type of immune
cell that acts as the brain's first line of defense — are activated when fibrinogen enters the brain or spinal cord.
He is leading a trial in Europe to use fetal
cells to treat patients, with the
aim of «putting
cell therapies for Parkinson's disease back on the map.»
Therapeutic strategies
aiming at restoring the function of the implicated genes (gene and
cell therapies) are very encouraging but not applicable in a near future to the variety of MDs.
The
cell processing track
aims at reproducible, safe and sustainable methods applicable in manufacturing settings for
cell - based products intended for cellular
therapy.
The insights we expect to gain from this study of mitochondria dysfunction and microRNAs, and what they tell us about how some RPE
cells become diseased while neighboring
cells are either resistant or susceptible to disease, hold promise of becoming the basis for entirely new
therapies for individuals suffering from AMD, built upon nucleic acid - based treatments
aimed at rejuvenating RPE
cell mitochondria.
Recently, research efforts have concentrated on
cell - based
therapies for CLI that
aim to improve limb perfusion by enhancing neovascularization.
The Asterias
cell therapy platform for cancer immunotherapy
aims to stimulate the body's ability to recognize cancer antigens and mount an immune response to control the spread of the disease.
Thus, our projects addressing beta
cell function
aim to reveal the underlying mechanisms of functional compensation and beta
cell dysfunction to protect and recover beta
cell function in diabetes
therapy.
LifeMap Discovery provides information related to
cell - based
therapies, which
aim to apply stem, progenitor or primary
cells towards treatment of degenerative diseases.
Still, laying siege to cancer
cells» supply lines may cast a wider net than targeted
therapies aimed at rare oncogenic mutations.
Their results, published online May 5 by the journal
Cell Stem
Cell, could help better inform
therapies aimed at neurocristopathies, diseases caused by defects in the neural crest or neurons, which include microphthamia and CHARGE syndrome.
Gene
therapy and
cell therapy are overlapping fields of biomedical research that
aim to repair the direct cause of genetic diseases.
Chemotherapy can affect the whole body, but targeted
therapy is
aimed at a specific part of the cancer
cell.
This will create strong synergy for a unified, multidimensional project
aimed at generating more effective CAR T
cells therapy for pancreatic cancer patients, with potential broad implications for immunotherapy directed toward other cancers.
Stem
Cell Assays is a collaborative project of stem cellresearchers and cell therapy experts aiming to promote the stem cell fi
Cell Assays is a collaborative project of stem cellresearchers and
cell therapy experts aiming to promote the stem cell fi
cell therapy experts
aiming to promote the stem
cell fi
cell field.
The FLI investigates the molecular causes for these aging - associated changes with the goal to uncover new approaches for
therapies aiming to preserve the functioning of the body's own stem
cells and organs thereby reducing the risk of diseases and cancer during aging.
Given our extensive experiences in neuronal differentiation of hESCs [6], [7], [8] and the potential application of hESC - derived neurons in
cell replacement
therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, we designed a set of experiments
aimed at developing a hESC - based automated assay for screening small molecules that have differential toxicity to hESC - derived NSCs and their differentiated neural progenies.
One possible implication of this work is for so - called «gene - silencing»
therapies for Huntington's disease, which
aim to reduce production of the huntingtin protein, by sticking to its RNA message molecules and telling
cells to get rid of them.