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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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Safety of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Treating Interstitial Cystitis: A Phase I Study

TL;DR: First clinical application of transurethral hESC-derived MSC injection in three patients with IC was safe and proved to have potential therapeutic efficacy in IC patients, suggesting stem cell therapy could be a potential therapeutic option for treating IC.
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Macular hyperpigmentary changes in ABCA4-Stargardt disease.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that patients with STGD with macular hyperpigmented lesions had a severe phenotype, which may be a marker of advanced stage of the disease.
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Commercializing Electrospun Scaffolds for Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Tissue Engineering Applications

TL;DR: This review critically evaluates the commercialization potential of electrospun scaffolds for applications in stem cell biology, including tissue engineering, and provides an overview of pluripotent stem cells and their defining properties, pluripotency and the ability to self-renew.
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Renewed assessment of the risk of emergent advanced cell therapies to transmit neuroproteinopathies

TL;DR: This review assesses the prospective global dissemination of advanced cell therapies founded on transplantation or exposure to allogeneic human cells, recap lessons learned from the historical precedents of CJD transmission and proposes grounds for a reassessment of the risks of emergentAdvanced cell therapies to transmit neuroproteinopathies.
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Visual hallucinations and sight loss in children and young adults: a retrospective case series of Charles Bonnet syndrome

TL;DR: The clinical features of young patients with CBS are described, with management strategies and aspects of negative outcomes, which significantly affected patients’ personal lives including education, diet and sleep.
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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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