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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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Longitudinal single-cell RNA-seq of hESCs-derived retinal organoids

TL;DR: This paper performed single-cell RNA-seq of retinal organoids from 5 time points (D36, D66, D96, D126, D186) and identified 9 distinct populations of cells.
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Engineering Transplantation-suitable Retinal Pigment Epithelium Tissue Derived from Human Embryonic Stem Cells.

TL;DR: This work describes a simple and reproducible method to engineer RPE tissue and its preparation for an in vivo implantation, and developed several strategies for its proper culturing and preparation for grafting in vivo.
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Photoreceptor Transplantation into the Degenerative Retina

TL;DR: Important achievements, challenges and hurdles to develop photoreceptor transplantation towards clinical applications are discussed and the recently identified transfer of cytoplasmic material between donor and host photoreceptors might represent an additional treatment option for cell transplantation approaches.
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Clinical application of stem cells: An update 2015

TL;DR: This review aimed to summarize, update clinical applications of stem cells to 2015, and approve the first expanded stem cell therapy to repair damaged cornea in the Europe.
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Methodology for Biomimetic Chemical Neuromodulation of Rat Retinas with the Neurotransmitter Glutamate In Vitro.

TL;DR: The experimental setup and methodology for eliciting retinal ganglion cell (RGC) spike responses similar to visual light responses in wild-type and photoreceptor-degenerated wholemount rat retinas are described by injecting controlled volumes of the neurotransmitter glutamate into the subretinal space using glass micropipettes and a custom multiport microfluidic device.
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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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