Regenerative Medicine - Tissue Engineering Summaries

Vascular graft to promote stem cell therapy for diabetes and other diseases
Millman, Jeffrey ; Zayed, Mohamed
T-016290

— Technology Description An interdisciplinary team at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a multi-layered arteriovenous graft device that enhances the survival and function of stem cell transplants to treat Type 1 diabetes or other diseases. Artificial organs derived from stem cells cou…

Method to create designer stem cells for safer, more effective therapeutics
Guilak, Farshid
T-018758

— Technology Description Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a method to create designer stem cells which provide a safer, more effective cell therapy approach to treating disease. Cell-based regenerative therapies could potentially be used to treat many diseases and res…

Scalable Generation of Hematopoietic Progenitors from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
Luff, Stephanie ; Sturgeon, Christopher
T-018886

— T-018886 — Scalable Generation of Hematopoietic Progenitors from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Technology Description In vitro generation of CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) that faithfully recapitulate in vivo behavior is an area of ongoing research. A key characteristic of CD34+ …