«The unique aspect of our procedure, which no one else in the world is doing, is the formation of blisters as the source of
donor cells combined with laser surgery to prepare the grafted areas.
Not exact matches
Combining an egg's genetic leftovers with
donor cells may be a way to double the number of eggs available for IVF in women whose ovarian reserve is running low
In theory, new embryos then could be created by
combining converted egg or sperm
cells with natural ones, or by
combining eggs with sperm
cells derived from different
donor animals.
The far - reaching potential of iPS research,
combined with a higher likelihood that
cell lines will stay linked to a single
donor (and that
donor's health history), heightens the need for consensus, said Timothy Caulfield, research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
For the other adult patients that might still benefit from a cord blood
donor, either two cord blood units are
combined for a single transplant, or more recently, there are some exciting new graft engineering technologies that are emerging to expand stem or progenitor
cells in the laboratory before infusion or modify the
cells in some way to make them more potent at the time of transplant.