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Cell and gene therapies, preferably termed CGTs, offer great and substantial
opportunities by providing a treatment or curing option for a wide array of diseases
that were previously believed to be untreatable.
Cell therapy is the transfer of intact, live cells into a patient to help lessen or cure a
disease. It can be an autologous cells (cells that originate from the patient) or allogenic
cells (cells from a donor). The most common type of cell therapy is blood transfusion,
and the transfusion of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets from a donor.
The cells used in cell therapy can be classified by their potential to transform into
different cell types or potency. Major candidates are Embryonic stem cells (ESCs),
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), Nuclear transfer embryonic stem cells
(ntESCs), Parthenogenetic embryonic stem cells (pES), Hematopoietic stem cells
(HSCs), Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), Neural stem cells (NSCs), Epithelial stem
cells and Immune cells.
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