Sentences with phrase «become other cell types»

But little is known about what determines which cells become neurons and which become other cell types.

Not exact matches

The back - and - forth attachment and removal of methyl groups also fine - tunes gene expression in stem cells, which can mature, specialize and multiply to become muscle, bone, nerve, or other cell types.

The genes O, S, and K were known to help the cells become pluripotent, which allows them to produce any other cell type in the body.

By chance this noise will make some cells more likely to become one type of cell, whilst others will start to favour an alternative.

With this discovery, DYRK1A, known from past studies to drive cell division in other cell types, becomes a drug development target.

To create different cell types in the lab, stem cells must be coaxed down the road of determination — the branching paths that fetal cells normally travel to become neurons, skin cells, muscle cells, or any number of other cell types.

In patients with severe asthma, however, NK cells are disabled from resolving inflammation, and become outnumbered by other types of immune cells that provoke inflammation.

Agata Smogorzewska, head of the Laboratory of Genome Maintenance, wants to understand how cells repair interstrand cross-links, a particular type of DNA damage in which the two strands of the double helix that normally twine about each other become physically linked.

Bacteria share DNA with other organisms with which they come into contact, so an antibiotic - resistant gene can transfer from one type of bacterium to another, and a bacterial cell can become resistant to numerous antibiotics at once.

While stem cells — cells that have the potential to differentiate into other types of cells — exist in adult humans, the most useful stem cells are those found in embryos, which are pluripotent, capable of becoming nearly any cell in the body.

It's a mystery,» he said, suggesting that it could mean stem cells thought to be committed to a particular lineage may be capable of becoming other types of tissue entirely.

«Those fish sperm stem cells may be able to become other types of cells in addition to germ cells,» he says.

They are surrounded by two other types of cells, which become the placenta and another structure, the yolk sac.

Adding a signaling molecule called WNT, while also blocking the activity of another molecule known as BMP, promotes differentiation into one kind of mesoderm; conversely, adding BMP while blocking WNT drives the cells to instead become the other type of mesoderm.

«Pluripotent» stem cells can become any other type of cell, and they can be derived from embryos or created from adult cells such as skin cells.

Because stem cells can become bone, muscle, cartilage and other specialized types of cells, they have the potential to treat many diseases, including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes and cancer.

Dr. Ding's work revolves around chemical reprogramming — the use of small molecule drug mixtures to coax fibroblasts into becoming a variety of other cell types.

«Now that we know a fetus can become tolerant to a foreign stem cell source, we can really think big and consider looking at how other types of stem cells might be used to treat everything from neurological disorders to muscular disorders before birth,» MacKenzie added.

(Adult stem cells, on the other hand, are much more limited in their potential; they can usually only become a few different cell types, and consequently are not applicable for treating as wide a variety of diseases as hESCs are.)

The research published in the journal Nature Biotechnology shed more light on which genetic factors are critical in the reprogramming of adult skin cells to become other types of cell.

Neural crest stem cells that remain SOX2 - free differentiate into other cell types, but never become neurons.

Now that stem cells (cells that retain the ability to become almost any other type of cell) are the subject of intense study in biology, maybe there is something to not being so quick to differentiate.

If someone has an immune response to wheat, but it does not result in celiac, they will manifest that in other ways, such as becoming Type 1 diabetic because the immune response has killed the islet cells, or their thyroid becomes inactive or cancerous... or their spleen swells up, or they manifest arthritis or rheumatic illness of some kind....

With this anti-aging supplement, the increase in stem cells released from the bone marrow into the blood stream have the potential to become other types of tissue cells with specialized function.

This means that they can become any type of blood cell but can not be used to repair other parts of the body.

Stem cells are powerful healing cells in your pet's body that can become other types of cells.

Stem cells are powerful healing cells in your body that can become other types of cells.