Sentences with phrase «stem cell replacement»

«You can manipulate stem cells and propagate them in a dish, but many recipients of stem cell replacement therapies will be older individuals.

Nevertheless, he thinks this sort of technology will be seen in the clinic before a treatment based on a stem cell replacement for photoreceptors.

«Skeletal muscle created from stem cells: Discovery is major step towards a stem cell replacement therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.»

The findings are a major step towards developing a stem cell replacement therapy for muscle diseases including Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which affects approximately 1 in 5,000 boys in the U.S. and is the most common fatal childhood genetic disease.

Stem cell replacement is thought to be driven by symmetric division of existing stem cells; however, alternate mechanisms to symmetric divisions are largely unexplored.