They can be induced into
becoming specific cell types, depending upon need.
They coated this scaffold with growth factors — chemical cues to goad stem cells into
becoming specific cell types — then soaked the structure in a solution of stem cells extracted from Beyene's bone marrow.
They do so by responding to a variety of time - and location - specific cues within the developing embryo that direct them to
become specific cell types.
McKay's laboratory studies the process by which stem cells
become specific cell types, known as differentiation.
Not exact matches
To tap embryonic stem
cells» therapeutic potential, researchers must learn how to coax them to
become a
specific type of
cell that can then be transplanted into the body.
A defining property of all stem
cells is that when they divide into two new
cells, they can form both stem
cells and differentiated
cells (
cells on their way to
becoming a
specific type of tissue).
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.
CReM's research using induced pluripotent stem
cells (iPSCs), which self - renew indefinitely as undifferentiated
cells that
become specific adult
cell types, has helped create an inexhaustible source of disease - or patient -
specific stem
cells.
Neural stem
cells are found in adult or fetal brain and spinal cord or derived from embryonic stem
cells, which have the capacity to
become any
cell type in the body, or induced pluripotent stem (iPS)
cells, tissue -
specific cells that are reprogrammed in the lab to behave like embryonic stem
cells.
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.