General

Question 1

What is autologous cell therapy?

Answer 1

Stem cells are removed from a person, stored, and later given back to that same person.

Question 2

What is allogeneic cell therapy?

Answer 2

Stem cells are removed from a person, stored and then given to a different person.

Question 3

What are the benefits of autologous cell therapy?

Answer 3

Immunocompatibility

Question 4

What are the problems with marketing allogeneic cell therapy?

Answer 4

People are iffy over cells from another person.

Question 5

What are the 5 main stages involved with cell therapy? H.S.A.S.A

Answer 5

Harvesting stem cells.
Selection of desired cells.
Amplicification. 
Screening. 
Administration. 

Amplification and screening stages reversed?

Question 6

What are iPS?

Answer 6

Induced pluripotent stem cells (also known as iPS cells or iPSCs) are a type of pluripotent stem cell that can be generated directly from adult cells.

Question 7

What are the problems with iPS?

Answer 7

Tumorigenicity.
Integration of gene delivery vectors and transgenes into host cells. Chromosomal damage, clonal expansion of oncogenic cells, incomplete reprogramming, DNA damage accumulation.

Question 8

What is the Encaptra drug delivery system?

Answer 8

It is a biological/artificial device for diabetes treatment.
It is a semi-permeable containment barrier surrounding a cell therapy. This cell therapy can output insulin, amylin, glucagon etc and use nutritional inputs such as glucose, O2, proteins etc.

Question 9

What is xenotransplantation?

Answer 9

Transplantation of living cells, organs or tissues from one species to another.

Question 10

What are the main problems with xenotransplantation?

Answer 10

Immune rejection,
Life span issues (low)
Cross-species infections.

Question 11

What are the main problems with transplants in general?

Answer 11

Immune rejections.