Tuesday 9 February 2016

Cell Expansion - A Big Move in Cancer Treatment!

Cell expansion is defined as the production of daughter cells which arise originally from the single cell. Cell expansion is beneficial either therapeutically as drug screening tools or for core research purposes. Currently, cell expansion is majorly used for stem cells expansion which are transplanted in patients with blood cancer. Cell expansion also has a potential to be used in various diseases linked with genetic defects such as Parkinson’s diseases or Alzheimer’s disease. The cell expansion market can be differentiated into various segments on the basis of type of cells used for expansion and by applications. On the basis of type of cells used for expansion, the cell expansion market has been differentiated into three classes which include:

Human Cells
Animal Cells
Plant Cells

Human cells capture the major share of the cell expansion market on the basis of cell type. These
cells are used for therapeutic applications for curing various types of cancers and genetic disorders. Human cells market could further be segmented into two classes which include stem cells and differentiated cells. Animal cell expansion on other hand is used for very less therapeutic applications however; plant cell expansion is currently under research activities for therapeutic applications. On the basis of applications, the cell expansion market has been classified as follows:

Stem cell research
Regenerative drugs
Biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals
Clinical diagnostics

Stem cell research dominates the cell expansion factors. Extensive use of stem cells for therapeutic cancer and genetic diseases involves the extensive cell expansion procedure. Biotechnology and biopharmaceutical research also involves the cell expansion to a high extent. Recently, GE Healthcare has launched a cell expansion technology, Xuri W25 that is designed to develop T-cell and is used for performing T-cell therapies. Cell expansion based cellular regenerative medicines are used majorly for developing medicines for cardiovascular and neurological diseases.


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