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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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Validation of Current Good Manufacturing Practice Compliant Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Hepatocytes for Cell-Based Therapy.

TL;DR: This is the first report the authors are aware of demonstrating cGMP‐compliant hPSCs can generate cells with advanced hepatic function potentially suitable for future therapeutic applications.
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Concise Review: Human Pluripotent Stem Cells to Produce Cell-Based Cancer Immunotherapy

TL;DR: For example, human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) provide a promising resource to produce immune cells for adoptive cellular immunotherapy to better treat and potentially cure otherwise lethal cancers.
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Sheets of human retinal progenitor transplants improve vision in rats with severe retinal degeneration.

TL;DR: It is shown that human fetal retinal sheets transplanted to the severely disturbed subretinal space of RD nude rats develop mature photoreceptors and other retinal cells, integrate with the host and induce vision improvement.
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Tracking and Quantification of Magnetically Labeled Stem Cells using Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

TL;DR: Recent advances in tracking and quantification of superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nanoparticle‐labeled cells with magnetic resonance imaging, a noninvasive approach that can longitudinally monitor transplanted cells, are introduced.
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Human Pluripotent Stem Cells-Based Therapies for Neurodegenerative Diseases: Current Status and Challenges.

TL;DR: The challenges in clinical application of human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-based therapies including risk of oncogenesis and tumor formation, immune rejection and difficulty in regeneration of the heterogeneous cell types composing the central nervous system are evaluated.
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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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