What are the implications and potential of the technology in terms of its therapeutic use?
Many diseases (e.g. Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, heart, diabetes) result from the dysfunction of a single cell type. With TriStem’s technology, the introduction of healthy cells of a particular type in large quantities into a patient could potentially restore a lost or compromised function. In addition, the retrodifferentiation process can also help us to understand better, and possibly treat, cancer and AIDS.
