Advances in Stem Cell Research for Future Therapies and In Vitro Disease Modelling 2.0
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 3202
Special Issue Editor
Interests: regenerative medicine; stem cells; organoids; cell replacement therapies; neurodegeneration; neural stem cells; cardiomyocytes; retinal disorders
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, stem cell therapy has become a very promising and advanced scientific research topic that is now undergoing its first clinical trials. This growing interest goes hand in hand with industrial partners aiming to bring technology and capacity up to scale and offer cell replacement therapies to patients suffering from chronic disorders.
This Special Issue is focused on recent discoveries that might contribute to the areas of basic stem cell research, in vitro disease modeling, translational stem cell research, and stem cell therapies. Recent advances in cell reprogramming and genome editing technologies have created new possibilities for the development of new in vitro models to study human diseases. More recently, organoids have emerged as powerful tools to better study early developmental biology as a possible source for future cell therapies.
Cell replacement therapies are now entering a new phase of growth, and novel discoveries for cell differentiation, expansion, purification, and delivery under GMP conditions are key aspects to move stem cell products from bench to bedside.
We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue and to communicate new advances in stem cell research for future therapies and in vitro disease modeling with original articles and reviews.
Dr. J. Carlos Villaescusa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- embryonic stem cells
- induced pluripotent stem cells
- organoids
- 3D cultures
- organogenesis
- in vitro disease modelling
- developmental biology
- cell fate
- bioreactors
- reprogramming
- pluripotency
- production and scalability
- GMP adaptation
- cell–material interaction
- biomaterials
- regenerative medicine
- cell therapy
- 3D scaffold
- epigenetics
