Sentences with phrase «testing cell replacement»
Several clinical trials are testing cell replacement therapies to treat spinal cord injuries.
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As well as allowing the use of stem cells grown from established cell lines, the technology could enable the creation of improved human tissue models for drug testing and potentially even purpose - built replacement organs.
Last year, Marson and Schumann successfully used CRISPR to perform precise DNA sequence replacements in primary human T cells for the first time by prefabricating the CRISPR machinery in test tubes, then adding it to the freshly donated immune cells.
A St. Louis orthopedic researcher has developed a way to grow a hip replacement out of stem cells found in a patient's fat reserves, and is now testing it in animals.
In 2017, ViaCyte, Inc. announced the allowance of clinical testing for its PEC - Direct cell replacement product candidate for high - risk type 1 diabetes.
Information on the clinical testing of ViaCyte's implantable cell replacement therapies can be found at Clinicaltrials.gov.
The VC - 01 product candidate is the first embryonic stem cell - derived islet replacement therapy to reach clinical testing and is currently being evaluated in patients with T1D who have minimal to no insulin - producing beta cell function.
A lead engineer from the Department of Energy whose team is testing fuel cell cars said in 2011 that the potential appeal is that «these are full - function vehicles with no limitations on range or refueling rate so they are a direct replacement for any vehicle.
It's been proved in Geekbench tests that phones with degraded batteries have slower CPU speeds than iPhones with new battery cells, as a battery replacement would increase the CPU and the respective test scores.