Sentences with phrase «cell types of the body»

Researchers believe stem cells may have the ability to be transformed into the different cell types of the body, which could make them useful in the future in medical research and potentially in therapy for people with serious diseases.

While the potential of adult stem cells has been understood for some time, researchers have argued that the pluripotency of embryonic stem cells — their ability to be transformed into most if not all of the various cell types of the body — make them more valuable both for research and potentially someday for treatment.

July 2009 - Switching on the power of stem cells Cambridge scientists reveal how the protein Nanog gives stem cells their unique abilities Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research at the University of Cambridge have pinpointed the role of the protein Nanog in a complex process that gives stem cells pluripotency: the ability to produce all the different cell types of the body.

At the early stages of life, the fertilized single - cell coming from the mother's egg and the father's sperm is highly plastic — it will give rise to all of the cell types of the body.

UCLA scientists have developed a new strategy to efficiently isolate, mature and transplant skeletal muscle cells created from human pluripotent stem cells, which can produce all cell types of the body.

Given that there are millions of cells in a typical skin biopsy (researchers used skin from either the end of the tail or from the ear of the mouse), that translates into thousands of stem cells, each one capable of developing into any cell type of the body.

In the different cell types of the body, different protein producing genes are active or inactive, and many medical conditions also depend on altered activity of specific genes.

To do this, she uses an amazing technology that allows skin cells from HD patients and healthy individuals to be «reprogrammed» into stem cells, which can form any cell type of the body.