The FDA defines cell therapy as "the prevention, treatment, cure, or alleviation of human disease or injury through the use of autologous, allogeneic, or xenogenic cells that have been manipulated or otherwise altered ex vivo" ("The prevention, treatment, cure, or mitigation of disease The aim of cell therapy, which overlaps with regenerative medicine, is to repair, replace, or repair damaged tissue and damaged organs restore.
Cell therapy may be in the form of a stem cell transplant, e.g. As a hematopoietic cell graft used to regenerate the amount of blood and the immune system of patients with leukemia, lymphoma or other blood diseases.