Sentences with phrase «cell transplants allow»

Stem cell transplants allow physicians to replace the body's source of blood cells after the bone marrow and its stem cells have been destroyed.

In a preliminary trial of 23 type 1 diabetes patients, Burt found that stem cell transplants allowed 20 patients to stop their insulin shots for an periods ranging from a few months to five years, and counting, with an average of 30 months.

Not exact matches

This may entail making small holes in the bone to allow new cartilage to grow (microfracture), taking cartilage from another part of the athlete's knee and transplanting it into the defect (osteochondral autograft transfer), taking cartilage cells from the knee and then having them grown in a lab for later re-implantation (autologous chondrocyte implantation), or taking cartilage from a person who has passed away and placing it in the defect (osteochondral allograft transfer).

The results show that the transplanted stem cells act as a «bridge» which allows injured sensory nerve fibers to grow into the spinal cord, rebuild functional nerve connections, and thereby achieve long term restoration of major parts of the lost sensory functions.

The approach, which is described in a paper to be published September 7 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, could allow those in need of such transplants, including leukemia and lymphoma patients, to be treated with fewer donor stem cells while limiting potential adverse side effects.

What is important about this work, however, is that it allows us to quantify the effect of stem cell transplant on molecular age.»

If approved after a 30 - day comment period, the new policy would allow the National Institutes of Health to fund researchers who want to put stem cells in early - stage animal embryos to study disease, possible therapies and organ transplants.

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