Advanced therapies provide a new concept of personalized medicament of autologous, allogeneic or xenogeneic origin, based on cells (cell therapy), genes (gene therapy) or tissues (tissue engineering), which, together with nanosystems, provide new advances in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases. The basis and different fields of action of cell therapy, gene therapy and nanomedicine are described in this review.
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