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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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High throughput screening for discovery of materials that control stem cell fate

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present screening platforms for the discovery of material properties that influence stem cell behavior, such as chemistry, topography, and stiffness, in two and three-dimensional environments.
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Progressing a human embryonic stem-cell-based regenerative medicine therapy towards the clinic

TL;DR: The current status of the development of embryonic stem-cell-based regenerative medicine therapies with a focus upon retinal disease is discussed, and some of the own experiences of progressing a retinal pigment epithelium cell replacement therapy towards the clinic are highlighted.
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The genetics of age-related macular degeneration (AMD)--Novel targets for designing treatment options?

TL;DR: It is pointed out that known genetic factors associated with AMD govern the risk to develop disease and thus may not play a role in its severity or progression and treatments based on such knowledge appear appropriate rather for prevention than treatment of manifest disease.
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Treatment Paradigms for Retinal and Macular Diseases Using 3-D Retina Cultures Derived From Human Reporter Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines.

TL;DR: The use of pluripotent stem cell lines carrying fluorescent reporters driven by retinal promoters to derive three-dimensional retina in culture is discussed and how this system can be exploited for elucidating human retinal biology, creating disease models in a dish, and designing targeted drug screens for retinal and macular degeneration.
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Intravitreal Administration of Human Bone Marrow CD34+ Stem Cells in a Murine Model of Retinal Degeneration.

TL;DR: Although a functional benefit of this cell therapy was not seen on ERG in this rapidly progressive retinal degeneration model, molecular changes in the retina associated with CD34+ cell therapy suggest potential trophic regenerative effects that warrant further exploration.
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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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