Sentences with phrase «behaved like stem»

A population of cells there behaved like stem cells.

The researchers also found that another population known as progenitor cells — differentiated daughter cells of stem cells — started to behave like stem cells: They began to live much longer than their usual lifespan of a few days, and they could also generate mini-intestines when grown outside of the body.

The study of mice suggests that a high - fat diet drives a population boom of intestinal stem cells and also generates a pool of other cells that behave like stem cells — that is, they can reproduce themselves indefinitely and differentiate into other cell types.

Not exact matches

The idea fell out of favour following the scandal of 2005, and after the development of a way to turn ordinary skin cells into so - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), which behave rather like hESCs.

For now, Porteus and his team found that their corrected human hematopoietic stem cells seemed to behave like normal, healthy human hematopoietic stem cells.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that mature cells have the ability to revert back to behaving more like rapidly dividing stem cells.

The healthy neurons behaved like ASD neurons, said co-senior author Alysson R. Muotri, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine departments of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, director of the UC San Diego Stem Cell Program and a member of the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.

2006 Shinya Yamanaka identifies and activates a small number of mouse genes in the cells of connective tissue, showing they can be reprogrammed to behave like immature stem cells.

This study shows that the stem cells behave as you would like them to and they appear safe, says Roger Barker of the University of Cambridge.

Zon and Kaufman believe that their findings could lead to a new genetic test for suspicious moles to see whether the cells are behaving like neural crest cells, indicating that the stem - cell program has been turned on.

Indeed, when fat stem cells isolated from healthy obese individuals were exposed to interleukin - 6 in the laboratory, they behaved like those obtained from individuals with risk of diabetes.»

«But what is really amazing is that when you cultivate old stem cells with signals from young fluid, they can still be stimulated to divide — behaving like the young stem cells.»

Instead the team is working with induced pluripotent stem cells, cells that have been reprogrammed to behave like embryonic stem cells, but can be made from a small sample of the intended recipient's own skin.

One week after a breakthrough finding, scientists report they can reprogram human skin cells to behave like embryonic stem cells without a growth factor known to cause cancer

«By changing the surface properties like the shape of the substrate at the nanoscale level, we tricked the stem cells to behave differently,» explains co-author Dr Julien Gautrot, from QMUL's School of Engineering and Materials Science and the Institute of Bioengineering.

For years, cancer experts have realized that cancerous cells behave in certain ways like stem cells, unspecialized cells that when exposed to certain signals, can «differentiate.»

Scientists at the University of Luxembourg have succeeded in turning human stem cells derived from skin samples into tiny, 3 - D, brain - like cultures that behave very similarly to cells in the human midbrain.

The Xie Lab demonstrated that differentiation - defective Drosophila ovarian germline stem cells (GSCs), behaving like human cancer stem cells, can out - compete normal stem cells for a position in the niche.

The new cells, which Yamanaka called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, looked and behaved like embryonic stem cells, which are prized for their ability to transform themselves into almost any kind of tissue and, perhaps, someday cure disease — a more distinct possibility now that President Barack Obama has loosened restrictions on stem cell research.

But the eyebrow - raising reports claimed that adult stem cells sometimes behave like their embryonic counterparts, mimicking their trademark capacity to engender all types of cells — an ability dubbed pluripotency.

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These cells behaved and looked just like neural stem cells.

So they felt, well, hmm, if we can boost them in skin stem cells, maybe they'll start behaving like embryonic stem cells.

And what they found was that after a few days, these genes that they added were able to get the skin cells to start behaving just like embryonic stem cells.

Some researchers are using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — tissue - specific cells (usually skin cells, but sometimes other tissue cells) that are reprogrammed in the lab to behave like embryonic stem cells — to grow rods and cones or RPE cells.

Growth factors are like switches that tell cells how to behave, for example to stay alive, divide or remain a stem cell.

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.