Sentences with phrase «potential use in regenerative medicine»
Human ES cells had just been isolated for the first time, and researchers were excited about their potential use in regenerative medicine.
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Through CBR ®, we also help families to preserve newborn stem cells, which are used today in transplant medicine for certain cancers and blood, immune and metabolic disorders, and have the potential to play a valuable role in the ongoing development of regenerative medicine.
The production of virus - free iPS cells, albeit from embryonic fibroblasts, addresses a critical safety concern for potential use of iPS cells in regenerative medicine.
«This shows iPS cells have a lot of problems, but that doesn't mean they don't have potential — just not with the established methodologies used to create them,» says tissue engineer Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston — Salem, N.C. «It's a solvable problem, but it looks as if one should look away from methods that don't genetically modify the cell.»
As part of a «Body on a Chip» project funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, scientists at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, in collaboration with partners from around the country, are developing miniature hearts, livers, blood vessels and lungs that will be used to predict the effects of chemical and biologic agents and used to test the effectiveness of potential treatments.
Today, however, drug - based medicine invariably uses chemicals that have not one iota of regenerative potential; to the contrary, they almost always interfere with bodily self - renewal in order to suppress the symptoms against which they are applied.