They first devised a nanoscale plastic scaffold and then seeded it with common muscle precursor cells called myoblasts, along with endothelial cells of the sort found on the inside of blood vessels. (discovermagazine.com)
In the current study, Dr. Rudnicki and his team discovered that muscle stem cells also express the dystrophin protein, and without this protein, they produce ten-fold fewer muscle precursor cells, which in - turn generate fewer functional muscle fibres. (sciencedaily.com)
In the new study, published in Cell Reports, scientists in the laboratory of Gladstone Senior Investigator Sheng Ding, PhD, used cellular reprogramming to convert muscle precursor cells and white fat cells into brown fat cells. (sciencedaily.com)