Patient specific stem cells / edited by Deepak A Lamba.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Human induced pluripotent stem cells : derivation / Uthra Rajamani, Lindsay Lenaeus, Loren Ornelas, Dhruv Sareen -- Human induced pluripotent stem cells : banking, and characterization / Uthra Rajamani, Lindsay Lenaeus, Loren Ornelas, Dhruv Sareen -- Genetic and epigenetic considerations in iPSC technology / Yoshiaki Tanaka, In-Hyun Park -- CRISPR-based genome engineering in human stem cells / Thelma Garcia and Deepak Lamba -- Stem cells for Parkinson's disease / Deepak A Lamba -- Huntington's disease and stem cells / Karen Ring, Robert O'Brien and Lisa M. Ellerby -- Applications of pluripotent stem cells in the therapy and modeling of diabetes and metabolic diseases / Suranjit Mukherjee, Shuibing Chen -- The role of iPSCs in disease modeling : Gaucher disease and related disorders / Daniel Borger, Elma Aflaki , Ellen Sidransky -- Role of induced pluripotent stem cells in urological disease modeling and repair / Mohammad Moad, Emma L Curry, Craig N Robson, Rakesh Heer -- Induced pluripotent stem cells : a research tool and a potential therapy for RPE-associated blinding eye diseases / Ruchi Sharma, Balendu Shekhar Jha, Kapil Bharti -- Modeling neuro-retinal development and disease in stem cells / Joseph Reynolds and Deepak A. Lamba.