Sentences with phrase «become immature stem cells»
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The mice benefited from human stem cells called glial progenitors, immature cells poised to become astrocytes and other glia cells, the supposed support cells of the brain.
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When Sukumar and the others depleted the HOXA5 protein in other breast cell lines in the lab, the cells became more immature, or «stem like,» as well as more mobile.
Converting adult skin cells into pluripotent cells — immature stem cells that can be programmed to become any tissue in the body — is a rapidly developing area of science that earned the researcher who discovered the technique, Shinya Yamanaka, a Nobel Prize in 2012.
Bone marrow contains stem cells, which are immature cells that become blood cells.
Normally, the bone marrow makes stem cells (immature cells) that become three types of mature blood cells:
Researchers had developed the technologies needed to create organoids years before — how to grow cells in culture, how to isolate stem cells from human tissue, and how to coax the stem cells, undifferentiated and immature, to become specific types of cells at later stages of development.
Surprisingly, by introducing only a few genes, he could reprogram mature cells to become pluripotent stem cells, ie immature cells that are able to develop into all types of cells in the body.