He believes they may be able to get around this obstacle with advances in generating stem cells from patient cells that have already developed into a specific type of tissue, such as skin. (salk.edu)
«Even though the success rate in patient cells cultured in a dish was low, we saw that the gene correction seems to be very robust in embryos of which one copy of the MYBPC3 gene is mutated,» says Jun Wu, a Salk staff scientist and one of the paper's first authors. (sciencedaily.com)
Guo and his collaborators continue their studies by establishing additional mouse models of leukemia that have been transplanted with patient cells of relapsed and refractory disease. (sciencedaily.com)