It would also be difficult to use the existing lines in human therapy.
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This blunderbuss approach fails to distinguish between potentially valuable therapeutic cloning, designed to produce stem cells for human therapy, and the more questionable reproductive cloning, designed to produce a human baby.
Dr. Amit Etkin, a Stanford psychiatrist and researcher who collaborates with Dr. Deisseroth, is trying to translate the findings about anxiety in rodents to improve human therapy with existing tools.
The first monoclonal antibody (mAb) entered human therapy in 1986.
The best results reported so far in human therapy are probably liposomes as carriers foramphotericin B in antifungal therapies.
It raised the hope that patient-specific iPSCs could become a renewable source of autologous cells for human therapy.
Stem cell research should be continued even though human therapy is not currently practical, Pozzan adds.
The use of murine antibodies, first polyclonal, then monoclonal in human therapy, has not so far ful-filled its promises.
The use of t-Res in human therapy is thus greatly facilitated and the toxicity risk is reduced.
Technical advances made in the 1980s and early 1990s resulted in monoclonal antibodies that are now approved for human therapy.
