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Human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelium in patients with age-related macular degeneration and Stargardt's macular dystrophy: follow-up of two open-label phase 1/2 studies

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The results suggest that hESC-derived cells could provide a potentially safe new source of cells for the treatment of various unmet medical disorders requiring tissue repair or replacement.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-02-07. It has received 990 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Macular dystrophy & Stargardt disease.

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Stemming retinal regeneration with pluripotent stem cells.

TL;DR: A brief introduction to retinal degenerative diseases and cell death in diverse diseases, followed by methods for retinal cell generation is begun, and future concerns about efficacy, safety and immunorejection are discussed.
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Transplantation of photoreceptors into the degenerative retina: Current state and future perspectives.

TL;DR: The history and current state of photoreceptor transplantation, the techniques used to assess rescue of visual function, the prerequisites for effective transplantation as well as the main roadblocks, including safety and immune response to the graft, that need to be overcome for successful clinical translation of photorean transplantation approaches are discussed.
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Yap and Taz regulate retinal pigment epithelial cell fate

TL;DR: It is shown that Yap/Taz-Tead activity is necessary and sufficient for optic vesicle progenitors to adopt RPE identity in zebrafish and provides a mechanistic framework for understanding the congenital ocular defects of Sveinsson's chorioretinal atrophy and congenital retinal coloboma.
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Cardiac differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells in scalable suspension culture

TL;DR: This protocol describes a suspension culture–based strategy for the generation of hPSC-CMs as cell-only aggregates, which facilitates process development and scale-up and is applicable to static multiwell formats supporting fast adaptation to specific hPSCs line requirements.
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Cell-Based Therapy for Degenerative Retinal Disease

TL;DR: Characteristics of stem cell therapy in the eye and the challenges to clinical implementation are discussed, which indicate that no single approach is likely to succeed in overcoming PR loss in all cases.
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Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by Defined Factors

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that iPS cells can be generated from adult human fibroblasts with the same four factors: Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, and c-Myc.
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Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts

TL;DR: Human blastocyst-derived, pluripotent cell lines are described that have normal karyotypes, express high levels of telomerase activity, and express cell surface markers that characterize primate embryonic stem cells but do not characterize other early lineages.
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Establishment in culture of pluripotential cells from mouse embryos

TL;DR: The establishment in tissue culture of pluripotent cell lines which have been isolated directly from in vitro cultures of mouse blastocysts are reported, able to differentiate either in vitro or after innoculation into a mouse as a tumour in vivo.
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The Retinal Pigment Epithelium in Visual Function

TL;DR: This review summarizes the current knowledge of RPE functions and describes how failure of these functions causes loss of visual function.
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