cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39850196
It involves removing a patient’s tooth, usually the canine, installing a plastic optical lens inside it, and then implanting the whole thing into the eye.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39850196
It involves removing a patient’s tooth, usually the canine, installing a plastic optical lens inside it, and then implanting the whole thing into the eye.
That’s a good point. I remember seeing an article about tooth re-growing teeth (in ferrets), and while I don’t remember if it was stem cells, that might be nicer than having to lose a tooth for an eye.
My background is a bit limited here, but looking around it seems that it’s ‘better’ but not necessarily ‘rejection proof’
HSCT came to mind first, but those are replicated inside the patient:
Induced pluripotent stem cells seem closer:
This other article from 2013 lists a few concerns, and I think this is the closest to what you were looking for: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3931018/#sec3
Potential Causes of iPSC Immunogenicity
A fun fact I came across on that wikipedia article:
Thanks a lot for looking into this!
I am not super familiar with the topic, but I have been told of some successful animal studies on implanting the organoid tissue into the animals from which the stem cells were derived.
Yeah, that covers nicely what I was wondering about. Especially the reason 1 (embryonic proteins not present during immune system education) and reason 2 (epigenetic changes). I can appreciate that these mechanisms might possibly cause issues, but I would be curious to learn the actual magnitude of their impact.
Oooh, that’s why! I do think iPSC looks nicer than IPSC. Not a big apple fan, though