Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) turned into specialized retinal cells were meant to cure the damage caused by age-related macular degeneration leading to blindness. The trial was halted due to mutations identified in cells of a second patient....
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European Commission on 17th February 2015 has given conditional marketing authorization of unprecedented medicine in EU. The active substance of Holoclar is the patient’s own limbal stem cells. It is a type of advanced therapy product called a tissue engineered product. It will be implanted to pati...
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BioForum stands out from other trade fairs organized in Europe, in such way, that it is an excellent platform to establish business relations for people who plan to commercialize their ideas. An example of a company whose origins are linked to BioForum is Celther Polska, which is confirmed by its fou...
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) causes nerve tissue atrophy that appears as degenerative changes in the brain. Brain shrinks because of uncontrolled loss of neurons, especially within the hippocampus, frontal lobe and amygdale....
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Polish researchers from The Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Varmia and Masuria has recently published their results concerning treatment of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with mesenchymal stem cells. It appeared that applied therapy hampered a progression of the disease in the majorit...
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Somatic stem cells are found to have an application in regenerative medicine. They are used more often to rebuilt damaged structures of the tissues or whole organs. This is the type of stem cells, that are present in adult human body in comparison to embryonic stem cells. They have the ability to tra...
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Umbilical cord blood is considered as a promising source of hematopoietic stem cells and other progenitor cells that can potentially be used for treatment of different disorders. Cord blood is easy to collect and its cells possess certain advantages over those encountered in bone marrow. However, the...
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A recent progress made in the field of cell therapy was accompanied with a great promise for treatment of various diseases that nowadays are extremely hard to manage. However, after successful discoveries made in the laboratories all over the world, it is time to face obstacles that hamper its commer...
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Almost everyone has heard about cloning sheep Dolly. This week, the team from Oregon Health & Science University announced, they had successfully repeated a part of this cloning procedure with human cells, obtaining a blastocyst. What does it mean to us? Should we treat it as a hope rather than porte...
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