Sentences with phrase «cell treatments need»

Until such time, people investigating stem cell treatments need to be aware of what is and isn't regulated in the countries in which they seek treatment.

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.

Researchers from Osaka University, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, recently found a way to produce polymer solar cells without the need for these specialized treatments, while improving its conductivity, by using amorphous polymer blends and adding a component.

Much more needs to be done to alert the public to the treatment successes obtained through the use of adult stem - cell research.

Phytic acid's chelating effect may serve to prevent, inhibit, or even cure some cancers by depriving those cells of the minerals (especially iron) they need to reproduce.17 The deprivation of essential minerals like iron would, much like other broad treatments for cancer, also have negative effects on non-cancerous cells.

Usually, no treatment is needed — avoiding the triggers is normally enough to prevent a crisis, or removing them is all that's necessary to eliminate symptoms, because the body then starts to create new red blood cells naturally.

A 50,000 unit blood bank would provide economies of scale that would reduce the cost to the NHS for every treatment as well as radically reducing the need to import stem cell units from abroad, which is a common and expensive practice today.

On this edition of Need to Know — the fight to survive, to improve treatment, to raise funding and to educate - all in the name of sickle cell.

For a cancer with very high genetic diversity (like AML) however, the unintended effect of treatment is often to select for the most aggressive, resistant cells, clearing away their competitors and furnishing them with all the resources they need to flourish.

To make stem cells the basis for safe medical treatments, however, the field would need the ability to tightly control stem cell pluripotency, the ability to become many cell types, and self - renewal or immortality, the ability to keep dividing and multiplying over time in constant turnover.

Nor do they need to be nourished from underneath by «feeder layers» of animal cells which have been shown to contaminate human cells grown, making them unsuitable for use in medical treatments.

It provides a home for donor cells to grow and proliferate, bypassing the need for any drug and radiation treatment.

Because the CAR - T cells do not eradicate all cancer cells, the researchers think the immune therapy will need to be combined with other treatments.

The exciting implication is that next - generation wastewater treatment plants could use new technologies, including microbe - powered fuel cells, to capture enough methane, hydrogen, and other fuels from wastewater to generate all the energy they need, and then some.

He needed a stem cell transplant, which is a normal treatment for leukemia, but his cancer needed to be in remission first, and the chemotherapy wasn't working.

The finding identifies how vulnerable cell groups react and respond differently to the accumulation of mitochondrial DNA damage seen in the disease, highlighting the need for cell - specific treatments.

The researchers concluded that if vitamin D is to be used in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, clinicians may need to prescribe much higher doses than currently employed or provide a treatment that also corrects the vitamin D insensitivity of immune cells within the joint.

Yamanaka's technique may enable doctors to grow stem cells from adult cells of patients needing treatment.

The glue could also help to deliver drugs to the exact cells that need them, avoiding nasty side effects from less targeted treatments such as chemotherapy.

Scientists are hopeful that ultimately these cells could be transformed in the laboratory to yield specific cell types needed for a particular treatment, or to cross the «blood - brain barrier» by expressing specific therapeutic agents that are released directly into the brain.

«Stem cells may offer unprecedented opportunities to develop treatments for many diseases with unmet medical needs.

People with type 1 diabetes need lifelong treatment with insulin, which helps transport the sugar glucose from the bloodstream into cells, where it serves as a key energy source.

While further research is needed to achieve these goals, the current approach can already help to characterize and assess treatments aimed at inhibiting influenza entry into cells.

If tumor cells are present within the node, the primary tumor has spread and additional lymph nodes may need to be removed and medical treatments tailored accordingly.

Researchers, physicians and patients need T cell - based products that can respond to malignant or infected cells that may reappear months or years after treatment.

New preclinical research on the molecular mechanisms responsible for sickle cell disease could aid efforts to develop much needed treatments for this devastating blood disorder that affects millions worldwide.

«We still need more studies to determine if there are other treatments that can be used to slow the progression of kidney disease specifically in individuals with sickle cell trait.»

Chien agrees that basic stem cell biology has not kept pace with clinical studies, but he says there is a compelling need for new treatments.

One fundamental goal of diabetes treatment is to preserve and restore functional beta cells, thereby replenishing levels of a hormone called insulin, which moves blood glucose into cells to fuel their energy needs.

«Genes need to be screened for stem cell transplants: Findings underscore need for screening methods to improve safety of promising experimental treatments.»

Conventional treatments for diseases such as cancer can carry harmful side effects — and the primary reason is that such treatments are not targeted specifically to the cells of the body where they're needed.

«I think what's needed for collective invasion will depend on the environmental stresses the cancer cells face, and it may shift with treatment,» Marcus says.

Commenting on Tong Yuan's treatment for Parkinson's disease, Oliver Cooper, director of the Stem Cell Facility of the Neuroregeneration Institute at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, and a specialist in Parkinson's disease, says, «The products offered by Tong Yuan may provide anecdotal, poorly controlled, transient improvements in the patients, but Parkinson's - disease patients need long - term therapies.»

Lacking the expensive machinery needed to validate cell lines on their own, most researchers either skip validation or ship their cultures to specialized labs which can delay important findings and treatments.

Researchers reporting online February 13 in the Cell Press journal Cell Stem Cell recently found a way to create platelets without the need for donated blood, an advance that could possibly erase supply shortages and ensure platelet treatments for all who need them.

A trained robotic surgeon experienced in the treatment of prostate, bladder and kidney cancer, Assoc Prof Chia said, «For anticancer drugs to achieve their best effectiveness, they need to penetrate into the tumour efficiently in order to reach the cystoplasm of all the cancer cells that are being targeted without affecting the normal cells.

The possible use of stem cell therapy for treatment of Parkinson's disease is long awaited and much needed (2 December,...

To develop new, targeted treatments to eliminate these residual infected cells, we need to find exactly where in the CD4 T lymphocyte population the virus hides.

Professor Steven Bova, based at the University of Tampere, Finland, and head of ICGC prostate cancer UK metastatic studies, said: «The diversity we've found suggests multiple biopsies might be needed to identify the «trunk» of the cancer's tree of mutations — we need treatments that target these core weaknesses to destroy all cancer cells in a clean sweep, rather than trimming the branches.

More work is needed to verify that the treatment is broadly successful in all CLL patients and that stray cancer cells don't eventually mutate so that they avoid displaying the molecule targeted by the T cells.

Therapeutic applications of CRISPR - Cas gene editing are being advanced with the goals of finding cures and treatments for a range of serious diseases, developing needed medicines for both household pets and production animals, and improving cell culture systems for bioproduction.

(To be sure, these people would often need to get such treatments early, before their conditions progressed and too many brain cells died.)

The treatment is currently being tested on other cells and needs to be tested in live models before we can think about experimental clinical trials.

\ n \ nI am very concerned because my Grandson has Spinal Muscular Atrophy and he needs the embryonic stem cell treatment to survive, before he dies.

More work will need to go into making sure any treatment based on this technique will only target cancerous cells and not healthy ones.

Although autologous cell transplantation circumvents the need for immunosuppressive treatment, it is not always available or most effective.

Recognizing there is still a tremendous need for better diabetes treatments, ViaCyte remains dedicated to developing cell replacement technologies as a way to significantly improve patients» lives.»

Scientists developing new cell therapy methods for the treatment of disorders such as sickle cell disease or leukemia need to consider how their culture conditions may affect the success of their translational research.

«Well, we know that these basal breast cancer cells are very plastic and we need to incorporate that kind of thinking into treatment regimes,» says Chaffer.

The authors say that it's possible that the new trabecular meshwork cells generated from the stem cell treatment could eventually succumb to the same mechanisms that caused the fluid buildup in the first place, but further research is needed in that area.