Sentences with phrase «es cell precursors»

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In the first, surgeons will inject ES - cell - derived neuronal - precursor cells into the brains of individuals with Parkinson's disease.

Zhou's team will coax ES cells to develop into precursors to neurons, and will then inject them into the striatum, a central region of the brain implicated in the disease.

Jeanne Loring, a stem - cell biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who is also planning stem - cell trials for Parkinson's, is concerned that the Australian and Chinese trials use neural precursors and not ES - cell - derived cells that have fully committed to becoming dopamine - producing cells.

The first step of our program is to apply the previously established lab - culture conditions that first commit human ES (hES) and iPS cells into retinal precursors.

In a study published earlier this year, the same Belmonte and Gage lab team demonstrated that a few ES cells in a culture dish tended to lose stemness and evolve into muscle cell precursors, most likely goaded by a muscle differentiation factor known as BMP.