Transplantation

... diseases actually being cured by biotechnological innovations. Currently the only viable stem cell treatment that I'm aware of is blood marrow transplantation, which is an old technique. What comes to biotechnological therapeutic agents, we have a couple humanised/chimerised antibodies and ...

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... there are no functional applications for it. Stem cells are 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 stem cells destroyed by chemotherapy or radiotherapy when treating ...

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... An experiment to investigate the effects of different target muscles on the properties of motor neurons that innervate them could be done through transplantation. Developing motor neurons can be transplanted into different muscle types. The neurons can be labelled with tracers to distinguish them ...

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... grown in a tank :P But yes, sounds like a possible scenario to me - it's 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 even though they don't work properly!

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... cell that could settle in the bone marrow and start producing new cells with a different genotype (that's what is actually done with bone marrow transplantation, after all), but as far as I know, the existing lymphocytes will destroy any such cells (and normally destroy also the stem cell(s) ...

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