Sentences with phrase «becoming different types of cells»

When a stem cell divides, it has the potential to either remain as a stem cell (process known as «self - renewal») or to become a different type of cell with a more specialized function («differentiation»).

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These cells, which can become several different types of blood cells, are similar to the specialized stem cells found in bone marrow that can churn out new blood cells.

«Growing stem cells on synthetic surfaces with different levels of compliance showed that stem cells would become a different cell type depending solely on the mechanical environment they perceive.

Stem cells are capable of becoming many different tissue types, including neurons.

Adult stem cells: They have less flexibility and «stemness» to change into different cell types, but they can still produce new cells, specialized to become part of a particular organ or tissue, such as muscle cells or neural cells.

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.

«The organization of cell colonies and phenotypic switching between different types of colonies becomes a lot more flexible and rapid with reversible aneuploidy than if it depended on random mutations in the genes,» Skupin says.

These findings will open up new ways to improve the efficiency of cell reprogramming and to drive stem cells to become different types of specialised cell.

For instance, the trials underway in China and Australia use neural progenitor cells that can grow to become a variety of different cell types.

«These are interesting results proving it is theoretically possible to «regress» cells back to an earlier stage in development when they are self - perpetuating and still have the potential to be directed to become a whole range of different cell types, whether nerve cells, heart muscle or bone.

(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 researchers were able to «reprogram» adult skin cells to become cells of a different tissue type.

MSCs hold great potential for the field of regenerative medicine, as they can become many different types of cells (they're «multipotent»), most typically bone, cartilage, and fat cells.

Although cancer stem cells have been identified in many different types of cancer, it is becoming increasingly clear that the properties of these cells may vary greatly among the different tumor types.

There are over 200 different types of cells in the human body, many of which can become neoplastic.

As time passes and the cells start dividing further and further, they start specializing into becoming a specific type of tissue which has a specific function, thus forming all the different parts that comprise a human.

Any cell can become this way — that is why we have so many different types of cancer.