Surgeon and inventor of the first successful artificial artery to be used in human patients.
A similar approach might be used in human therapy: a gradual withdrawal of fear.
This treatment approach is unlikely to be used in human patients, since cataracts can be addressed in far easier ways.
Use a multidisciplinary approach and real examples to illustrate how biomaterials could be used in human body reconstruction.
Zhang and his team quickly realized that this system could be used in human cells as well.
BASF says that while starch from its GM potato will not be used in human food, it may use the product in animal feed.
"These are tests that need to be carried out on new drugs, new procedures, before they can be used in human patients".
Also, the information supplied on the chemical properties of the hawthorn fruit can be used in human nutrition.
All of this happens in an operating theatre on site using equipment and anaesthetic the same as would be used in human brain surgery.
Scientists claim progress in limiting off-target effects, but CRISPR to this point hasn't matured enough as a technique to be used in human therapies.
The researchers cautioned, however, that it could take up to two decades before such therapies are ready to be used in human patients.
