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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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Inherited retinal diseases: Therapeutics, clinical trials and end points-A review.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) is presented, including macular dystrophies, cone and cone-rod dystrophes, cone dysfunction syndromes, Leber congenital amaurosis, rod-cone dystrophic disorders, rod dysfunction disorders and chorioretinal dystophies.
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Rare genetic diseases: update on diagnosis, treatment and online resources.

TL;DR: How the collection of various types of information together with the use of new technologies is facilitating diagnosis and, consequently, treatment of rare diseases is discussed.
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Teratoma: from spontaneous tumors to the pluripotency/malignancy assay

TL;DR: The standardized teratoma assay should be directed more to the assessment of EC/malignant cell features than of differentiated tissues, especially after a unique case of human therapy with neural stem cells was found to lead to malignancy.
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Chemical Modulation of Cell Fate in Stem Cell Therapeutics and Regenerative Medicine

TL;DR: Recent progress, new insights, and future challenges of the chemical approaches in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine are discussed.
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HiPSC-derived retinal ganglion cells grow dendritic arbors and functional axons on a tissue-engineered scaffold.

TL;DR: The generation of retinal ganglion cells from the neural retina and their seeding on a biodegradable poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) scaffold to create an engineered RGC-scaffold biomaterial is disclosed.
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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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