Sentences with phrase «turn human skin cells»

Sheng Ding, PhD, has discovered how to turn human skin cells into insulin - producing pancreatic cells.

That's an impressive claim, and it's based on newly released data from his lab that shows the ability to turn human skin cells into liver cells.

«Scientists Turn Human Skin Cells Into Insulin - producing Cells.»

Wells's team first turned human skin cells into pluripotent stem cells, which can grow into any type of tissue.

Past work by Yoo and his colleagues — then at Stanford University — showed that exposure to two short snippets of RNA turned human skin cells into neurons.

LA JOLLA — For the first time, scientists have turned human skin cells into transplantable white blood cells, soldiers of the immune system that fight infections and invaders.

Not exact matches

Using viral gene insertion and regulatory proteins, researchers turned adult human skin cells directly into adult human blood cells, without first returning them to a fully pluripotent state.

Anand and his colleague Susan McKay started with human skin cells, which they turned into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) using a tried - and - tested method.

Scientists recently announced that they have found a way to turn human skin into cells that have all the therapeutic potential of embryonic stem cells.

Similarly, the three research teams that last week reported turning mouse skin cells into embryolike cells say they will have to study embryonic cells to learn how to reprogram human cells in the same way and to understand their potential.

It is possible to force human skin cells to turn back into embryonic stem cells in the lab, but this doesn't seem to be something we are able to achieve without intervention.

Scientists at the University of Luxembourg have succeeded in turning human stem cells derived from skin samples into tiny, 3 - D, brain - like cultures that behave very similarly to cells in the human midbrain.

Both teams successfully used these to reprogramme skin cells in a lab dish into cells resembling embryonic stem cells, which have the ability to turn into any tissue of the human body.

Gladstone scientist Dr. Sheng Ding has exposed more chameleon - like qualities of the human skin cell, using chemical cocktails to turn skin cells into fully functional brain, heart, liver, and insulin - producing pancreas cells.

Rather than reversing cells all the way back to a stem cell state before prompting them to turn into something else, such as in the case of iPS cells, the researchers «rewind» skin cells just enough to instruct them to form the more than 200 cell types that constitute the human body.

The work, as detailed in the journal Stem Cells, shows that only a bit of creative manipulation is needed to turn skin cells into human white blood cCells, shows that only a bit of creative manipulation is needed to turn skin cells into human white blood ccells into human white blood cellscells.

Two teams independently discover a way to turn ordinary human skins cells into stem cells with the same characteristics as those derived from human embryos, a breakthrough that could open the door for advanced medical therapies.

Two teams of scientists have independently discovered a way to turn ordinary human skin cells into stem cells with the same characteristics as those derived from human embryos, a breakthrough that could open the door for advanced medical therapies.

In the Science study, Ding's team used trial and error to find a combination of chemicals that could induce human skin cells to turn into multipotent stem cells, and then into cardiomyocytes.

To overcome these hurdles, Bhatia and her team reprogrammed human skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-- embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease.

Meanwhile, Dr. Mick Bhatia's group at the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University found a way to make human skin cells sing «Any Way You Want Me,» turning directly into blood cells without a pluripotent cell step in betwCell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University found a way to make human skin cells sing «Any Way You Want Me,» turning directly into blood cells without a pluripotent cell step in betwcell step in between.