Cell transplantation

... has been much slower than initially was hoped. The much-hyped stem cell technology, for example, has a lot to do before it can meet the promises ... the only viable stem cell treatment that I'm aware of is blood marrow transplantation, which is an old technique. What comes to biotechnological ...

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At the moment, stem cell technology is not making people live longer, because there are no functional applications ... routinely used only in one context that I can think of: blood/bown marrow stem cell transplantation. In that procedure the patient's (e.g. a person who has had their own ...

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... spinal cord. The time at which the neural precursors withdraw from the cell cycle and differentiate also determines the signals received by the ... properties of motor neurons that innervate them could be done through transplantation. Developing motor neurons can be transplanted into different ...

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... requires adjusting so many variables, such as nutrients, hormones, cell-to-cell interaction, temperature, etc etc, that the day when we are ... interesting to see wether we manage to build in vitro organs for organ transplantation first, or do we have to eat them because they're good food ...

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... cannot quite see how this 'switch of blood type' could take place. The cells of the immune system are still in the person's body, and if this person's ... a different genotype (that's what is actually done with bone marrow transplantation, after all), but as far as I know, the existing lymphocytes ...

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