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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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Sensory Transduction in Photoreceptors and Olfactory Sensory Neurons: Common Features and Distinct Characteristics.

TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes some of the common and unique features of photoreceptors and olfactory sensory neurons that make these cells so exciting to study, and how diseases affect our senses of vision and smell.
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Emerging treatments for geographic atrophy in age-related macular degeneration.

TL;DR: There are promising new treatments to prevent GA progression as well as some that may reverse the disease course as discussed by the authors, however, the progress in understanding the disease pathophysiology and clinical trial data is reviewed.
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The effect of clinical-grade retinal pigment epithelium derived from human embryonic stem cells using different transplantation strategies

TL;DR: Comparing the RPE cells suspensions and cell sheet transplantation using a wellknown model of dry AMD, Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) rats and the comparison between these two strategies should be well studied to maximize the effects of RPE transplantation is compared.
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Small Molecules: Controlling Cell Fate and Function

TL;DR: In vitro and in vivo applications of small molecules in regenerative medicine include in Vitro regulating pluripotent stem cell and adult stem cell production and differentiation, in vivo modulation of adult stem cells and differentiated cells, and changing cell fate to restore the missing cells.
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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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