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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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The Retinal Pigment Epithelium in Health and Disease

TL;DR: The magnitude of the demands imposed on this single layer of cells in order to execute these tasks, will become apparent to the reader of this review as will the number of clinical disorders that take origin from these cells.
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Long‐Term Safety and Function of RPE from Human Embryonic Stem Cells in Preclinical Models of Macular Degeneration

TL;DR: Long‐term data showed no gross or microscopic evidence of teratoma/tumor formation after subretinal hESC‐RPE transplantation, suggesting that hESCs could serve as a potentially safe and inexhaustible source of RPE for the efficacious treatment of a range of retinal degenerative diseases.
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Teratoma formation by human embryonic stem cells: evaluation of essential parameters for future safety studies.

TL;DR: The teratoma assays are considered the gold standard for demonstrating differentiation potential of pluripotent human embryonic stem cells and hold promise as a standard for assessing safety among hESC-derived cell populations intended for therapeutic applications.
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Identifying the content area for the 51-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire: results from focus groups with visually impaired persons.

TL;DR: An item-generation strategy for a new questionnaire using a standardized focus group method identified content areas and aspects of visual disability that are not included in currently available vision-specific instruments that assess the impact of common eye diseases on visual functioning in every-day life.
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Human Embryonic Stem Cell–Derived Cells Rescue Visual Function in Dystrophic RCS Rats

TL;DR: Embryonic stem cells promise to provide a well-characterized and reproducible source of replacement tissue for human clinical studies and batches of RPE derived from NIH-approved hES cells were tested and shown capable of extensive photoreceptor rescue in an animal model of retinal disease.
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