Sentences with phrase «when human stem cells»

When human stem cells develop into beta cells in a dish, they only reach a precursor stage, unable to fully mature; this prevents them from effectively producing insulin in response to glucose.

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When Gupta's team added salinomycin to cultured human breast - cancer cells, it was about 100 times as effective at killing the cancer stem cells as popular anti-cancer drug, paclitaxel.

Those issues emerged 17 years ago, when a Stanford colleague of Greely's proposed implanting human stem cells into mouse brains to see what would happen when the former turned into neurons; the experiment has not yet happened.

Woo Suk Hwang, the veterinarian who made headlines when he cloned human stem cells last year, announced in May that he and his colleagues had made stem cells tailored for different patients.

Geron, the biotech wunderkind, last made big news in November 1998 when scientists they funded — James A. Thomson of the University of Wisconsin and John D. Gearhart of Johns Hopkins — independently isolated two sorts of so - called human pluripotent stem cells.

When the researchers injected human umbilical stem cells behind the retinas of these rats, the Müller glia remained healthy, as did the neural synapses.

Kotton built a reporter gene that glowed green when the stem cells first expressed Nkx2 - 1, and Hawkins engineered the same gene into human cells.

The bill was put forth to loosen the restrictions Bush placed on human embryonic stem cell research on August 9, 2001, when he banned federal funding for work with any stem cell line created after that date.

«We found that the worms and human cells were almost completely protected from the Huntington's aggregates when we turned on this response,» said Andrew Dillin, the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research in UC Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Finally, they demonstrated that zebrafish OPCs differentiate into mature oligodendrocytes when cultured together with human motor neurons, differentiated from induced pluripotent stem cells.

Prior research with cultured tissue had shown that a mix of chemicals could change bone marrow stem cells from mice to those resembling brain cells, but when a team led by neurologist Lorraine Iacovitti of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia tried the same brew on human cells, the number altered was modest.

In June Italian scientists announced the first human embryonic stem cells derived from parthenotes — embryo - like structures formed when an egg starts to divide on its own, with no sperm involved.

In 2004 Blackburn and ethicist William F. May made headlines when the Bush administration ousted them from the President's Council on Bioethics for their strong public support of human embryonic stem cell research.

The Bundestag faces a heated debate on 30 January, when the issue of whether to allow the import of human embryonic stem cells for research purposes is on the agenda.

But this process — even when taking skin cells from an older human — doesn't guarantee stem cells with «older» properties.

«The spectrum of tissues at risk for transformation when harboring a p53 mutation include many of those that we would like to target for repair with regenerative medicine using human pluripotent stem cells,» said Eggan.

Jasper says rapamycin was able to rescue stem cells even when given to mice starting at 15 months of age — the human equivalent of 50 years of age.

Stem cells obtained in mice also show totipotent characteristics never generated in a laboratory, equivalent to those present in human embryos at the 72 - hour stage of development, when they are composed of just 16 cells.

When a team of South Korean scientists announced in February that they had successfully derived stem cells from a cloned human embryo, they trumpeted the potential someday to treat disorders from diabetes to spinal cord injuries.

Still, the genetic homogeneity of largely inbred mouse strains may be misleading when it comes to understanding human stem cells, cautions Peter Andrews, professor of biomedical science and co-director of the Centre for Stem Cell Biology at the University of Sheffield, U.K. «In the human, every embryonic stem cell that we're working with that comes from a different person is genetically different,» says Andrstem cells, cautions Peter Andrews, professor of biomedical science and co-director of the Centre for Stem Cell Biology at the University of Sheffield, U.K. «In the human, every embryonic stem cell that we're working with that comes from a different person is genetically different,» says AndrStem Cell Biology at the University of Sheffield, U.K. «In the human, every embryonic stem cell that we're working with that comes from a different person is genetically different,» says AndrCell Biology at the University of Sheffield, U.K. «In the human, every embryonic stem cell that we're working with that comes from a different person is genetically different,» says Andrstem cell that we're working with that comes from a different person is genetically different,» says Andrcell that we're working with that comes from a different person is genetically different,» says Andrews.

The federal government moved a step closer to funding research on some human stem cells today, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released draft guidelines covering the controversial research.

When the mice received no treatment or were treated with imatinib alone, the human leukemia stem cells propagated and grew to relatively large numbers.

Two papers published this week appear to bring closer the day when embryonic - like stem cells can be used to treat human diseases.

When the researchers added a specific bone morphogenetic protein called BMP4, as well as another signaling molecule called retinoic acid, to human embryonic stem cells, they got a mixture of two types of sensory interneurons.

«When we look back in 25 years, putting the first embryonic stem cells into humans will prove as momentous as man's first step on the moon.»

When BMP protein was added for three days in human pluripotent stem cell - derived gut tube cultures, it induced a posterior HOX code.

The team's target was stem cells derived from human fat, or human adipose (hASC) cells and the process these stem cells use to convert to bone cells when stimulated to do so.

The epithelial stem cells, when implanted into immunocompromised mice, regenerated the different cell types of human skin and hair follicles, and even produced structurally recognizable hair shaft, raising the possibility that they may eventually enable hair regeneration in people.

ig embryos that had been injected with human stem cells when they were only a few days old began to grow organs containing human cells, scientists reported on Thursday, an advance that promises — or threatens — to bring closer the routine production of creatures that are part human and part something else.

Stem cells collected from human corneas restore transparency and don't trigger a rejection response when injected into eyes that are scarred and hazy, according to experiments conducted in mice by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

But one glimpse came in 2013, when scientists transplanted human neural stem cells into the brains of mice which had damage in regions responsible for learning and memory.

When transplanted to the subretinal space of mice lacking functional photoreceptors, human embryonic stem cells directed toward a retinal lineage integrate into the outer nuclear layer, express photoreceptor markers, and restore a light response as determined by the electroretinogram (ERG)[5].

«Many Americans consider it unethical and immoral to destroy human embryos for scientific research, especially when adult stems cells have a proven track record of success,» he said.

When the late blastocyst is implanted in the uterine wall, at day 7 or 8 in human development, the trophoblast stem cells (in the trophoblast) quickly differentiate to form cells required for a firm implantation and, later, for the placenta.

I pray for the day when James A. Thomson and others in favor of human embryonic stem cell research think about it enough to be totally uncomfortable.

However, when the 8 - million - Euro funding call was made public, a sentence had been introduced that explicitly excluded research on human embryonic stem cells.

When derived from fetal membranes, such as chorionic and amniotic membranes, MSCs are considered an intermediate between human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and adult stem cells.

«Finally, to assess the potential fate of mtDNA under condition when the cells can replicate extensively (longer than allowed by UK law), they derived human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines from five ePNT blastocysts.

Back when stem cells were first extracted from human embryos 20 years ago, scientists were fascinated at their ability to change into any type of cell in the body and thought they would soon be used to treat all types of diseases, from eye disorders to diabetes.

Human heart cells grown from stem cells show less - robust muscle fibers (green) in the presence of high levels of glucose (left) than when glucose levels were lower (right).

With the new SIF - seq technique, mouse embryonic stem cells can be used to identify human embryonic stem cell enhancers even when the human enhancers are not present in the mouse genome.

Studying cells from the stomach and pancreas in humans and mice, as well as mouse kidney and liver cells, and cells from more than 800 tumor and precancerous lesions in people, the researchers found when tissue is injured by infections or trauma, mature cells can revert back to a stem - cell state in which they divide repeatedly.

Stem cells collected from human corneas restore transparency and don't trigger a rejection response when injected into eyes that are scarred and hazy, according to experiments conducted by researchers at the...

Until a few years ago, when iPS cells were created, the only way to obtain stem cells was to harvest them from human embryos.

Researchers have shown that human induced pluripotent stem cells can differentiate and self - organize into cardiac microchambers when spatially confined.

Thomson, 48, made headlines in 1998 when he announced that his team had isolated human embryonic stem cells.

Obama has chosen to fund abortion overseas, clearly favors funding abortions here, and has reversed the limitations on funding of embryo - destructive stem cell research Given these facts, it is fair to ask: what is his position on the beginning of human life and when human life has or acquires inherent dignity?

When grown on a geometrically confined surface, human induced pluripotent stem cells go through differentiation with distinct spatial patterning.

Embryonic» and «senescent» aren't supposed to go together any more than «good» and «grief» or other oxymorons, which is why biologist Robert Lanza was «devastated» when he saw what was happening with the human stem cells he and colleagues were trying to grow.