Sentences with phrase «japanese cell biologist»

Finally this month, the Nobel Prizes were handed out with Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi awarded the Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy, which it is hoped could lead to breakthroughs in treatments for cancer, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

A Japanese cell biologist will win the award for physiology or medicine for explaining autophagy, or «self - eating.»

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In 2006, Japanese biologist Shinya Yamanaka found a solution: He reprogrammed skin cells from a mouse, turning them back into embryo - like cells, with the potential to grow into any tissue, simply by adding four genes.

Japanese stem cell biologist Hiromitsu Nakauchi is pioneering a technique that ultimately aims to implant human pluripotent cells into pig embryos to create replacement human tissues and organs.

There are now multiple immunotherapies targeting clearance of alpha - synuclein from the brain in early - stage clinical trials, and multiple trials underway or in the works on the next generation of cell replacement therapies for dopaminergic neurons, including the TRANSEURO trial; the Summit4StemCell initiative, put together by Jeanne Loring — a researcher at The Scripps Research Institute who is exceptionally engaged with turning her research into therapies; a Japanese trial to be run by Jun Takahashi of Kyoto University in Japan (cf. here and here); and a trial centered at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center headed by cell biologist Lorenz Studer.

These include the TRANSEURO trial; the Summit4StemCell initiative; a Japanese trial to be run by Jun Takahashi of Kyoto University in Japan (cf. here and here); a trial centered at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center headed by cell biologist Lorenz Studer; and another being organized by cell therapy pioneer Ivar Mendez at the University of Saskatchewan and Ole Isacson of Harvard.