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Cell-Based Solutions for Neurologic Disease

Emerging tissue-engineering and cell transplantation therapies have the potential to provide solutions to many of the treatment challenges facing neurologists today.

by Robert Neil

Emerging tissue-engineering and cell transplantation therapies have the potential to provide solutions to many of the treatment challenges facing neurologists today. Key technologies used in tissue engineering and organ regeneration include biomaterials for the creation of scaffolds to guide tissue growth, cell cultivation technology for expansion of stem cells into complete tissues, and immunoisolation technology to avoid interaction of the immune system with certain implanted materials

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