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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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Stem Cell Therapies in Clinical Trials: Progress and Challenges

TL;DR: Clinical investigations using stem cell products in regenerative medicine are addressing a wide spectrum of conditions using a variety of stem cell types and applications are progressing in trials, some with early benefits to patients.
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Stem cells: past, present, and future.

TL;DR: A wide variety of possibilities makes this cutting edge therapy a turning point in modern medicine, providing hope for untreatable diseases and challenges that stem cell therapy must overcome to be accepted worldwide.
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Gene therapy clinical trials worldwide to 2017: An update

TL;DR: This review presents the analysis of clinical trials that, to the best of the knowledge, have been or are being performed worldwide, and discusses key trends since the previous review, namely the use of chimeric antigen receptor T cells for the treatment of cancer and advancements in genome editing technologies.
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Development of the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire.

TL;DR: Preliminary analyses indicate that the psychometric properties of the NEI VFQ-25 are robust for the eye conditions studied; this suggests that the measure will provide reproducible and valid data when used across multiple conditions of varying severity.
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Embryonic stem cell trials for macular degeneration: a preliminary report

TL;DR: The first description of hESC-derived cells transplanted into human patients with Stargardt's macular dystrophy and dry age-related macular degeneration is provided, with no signs of hyperproliferation, tumorigenicity, ectopic tissue formation, or apparent rejection after 4 months.
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Development of the 25-item National Eye Institute visual function questionnaire

TL;DR: Preliminary analyses indicate that the psychometric properties of the NEI VFQ-25 are robust for the eye conditions studied; this suggests that the measure will provide reproducible and valid data when used across multiple conditions of varying severity.
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Human embryonic stem cell lines derived from single blastomeres

TL;DR: A series of ten separate experiments demonstrating that hES cells can be derived from single blastomeres are reported, which would address the ethical concerns of many, and allow the generation of matched tissue for children and siblings born from transferred PGD embryos.
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