In recent years, clinical trials with stem cells have taken the emerging field in many new directions. While numerous teams continue to refine and expand the role of bone marrow and cord blood stem cells for their vanguard uses in blood and immune disorders, many others are looking to expand the uses of the various types of stem cells found in bone marrow and cord blood, in particular mesenchymal stem cells, to uses beyond those that could be corrected by replacing cells in their own lineage.
Review
Clinical trials for stem cell therapies
Alan Trounson , Rahul G Thakar , Geoff Lomax and Don Gibbons
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, 210 King Street, San Francisco, CA 9107, USA
BMC Medicine 2011, 9:52doi:10.1186/1741-7015-9-52
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