Beyond gene therapy, another issue of much debate relates to the use of stem cells. These cells can be divided into two broad classes: embryonic and adult. Both classes are currently being ...

The road from basic mechanisms to clinical gene therapy for cardiac disease has ... normal human skin cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic state, producing induced pluripotent stem cells.

Both embryonic stem cells and iPS cells have been used in experimental treatments with ... Since blood stem cells have been used for long times within health care, they are likely pioneers also for ...

A Division Bench of Justices G.S. Sistani and Jyoti Singh allowed Virender Singh Malik, a neuro muscular disease patient to continue with his ongoing Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy treatment.

Human-gene therapy has been one of the most ambitious ... One can simply perform pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to identify a normal embryo (the parents’ eggs and sperm would produce both ...

An inquiry into the ethical issues surrounding genetically altering a human embryo has found there is ... and advised gene therapy scientists to proceed "with caution". Speaking to reporters ...

“The goal is to produce eggs for patients who don’t have their own eggs,” said lead study author Shoukhrat Mitalipov, director of the OHSU Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene ...

AAV vector evaluation in vitro for retinal gene therapy Retinal organoids from ... With a laminar cell organization resembling embryonic development, the retinal organoids, derived from iPSCs ...