Some stem cell therapies for the heart are being tested in human clinical trials.
Menasche has been working on cell therapies for heart failure for over a decade.
We'd like to highlight four companies with unique approaches to stem cell therapies: Cytori Therapeutics, Geron, Athersys and Celgene.
But Josephine Quintavalle, director of Comment on Reproductive Ethics (Core), which opposes embryonic stem cell therapies, dismissed the research as "highly speculative".
"To get any of these advanced cell therapies into humans for the treatment of disease, we need to use human cells, " he says.
They prefer proteins, cell therapies, and other newer types of medicines that will continue to generate revenue even if patents expire and generics emerge.
Another example is the very extensive field of stem cell therapies.
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Her enthusiasm for the promise of adult stem cell therapies and induced pluripotent stem cells (adult cells that have been reprogrammed into stem cells) was evident.
The new manufacturing plant will be complementary to Angel's existing core business in advanced biologics, which includes biopharmaceutical proteins and cell therapies, such as stem cells.
Regulatory agencies, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency, are closely scrutinizing stem cell therapies they are asked to review and approve.
Stem cell therapies have the potential to surpass monoclonal antibodies because they use cells doing what cells normally do to stimulate the body to do what it normally does.
We hope that we can get not just Church leaders, but also ministers of health and the scientific community to work together to advance the research and transfer stem-cell therapies safely from the laboratory to the clinic.
Dr. Alan Colman, a member of the team that cloned Dolly the sheep -- the first cloned mammal -- in 1997, told CNN that within 20 years stem cell therapies could be used to treat degenerative diseases such as diabetes, congestive heart failure and Parkinson's disease.
And they say that their focus on old-fashioned medicines, not newfangled cell-based therapies, is a big advantage over previous stem cell firms.
Continuous monitoring of the differentiation process of stem cells is of great importance for the development of cell-based regenerative medicine therapies and is extremely novel.
These disease-specific stem cell lines will also be invaluable in testing out new therapies.
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Scientists across the globe began conducting new experiments, finding newer, better ways to create this new type of stem cell, to coax new kinds of cellular transformation and to dream about the new therapies (and grants) they might pursue.
Moreover, cell therapy will have to show that it helps reduce improvements above and beyond numerous existing drug and device therapies for heart failure.
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