Sentences with phrase «cellular reprogramming methods»

«Eventually you have to replace those genes with small molecules, with proteins, with whatever,» says Ding, who is working on cellular reprogramming methods that use small molecules, rather than viruses.

A new cellular reprogramming method has been revealed that transforms human skin cells into liver cells that are virtually indistinguishable from the cells that make up native liver tissue.

Writing in the latest issue of the journal Nature, researchers in the laboratories of Gladstone Senior Investigator Sheng Ding, PhD, and UCSF Associate Professor Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD, reveal a new cellular reprogramming method that transforms human skin cells into liver cells that are virtually indistinguishable from the cells that make up native liver tissue.

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Sheng Ding, PhD, a senior investigator in the Roddenberry Stem Cell Center at Gladstone and co-senior author on the study, adds, «This new cellular reprogramming and expansion paradigm is more sustainable and scalable than previous methods.

Dr. Ding's cellular - reprogramming methods are already revolutionizing the fields of science and medicine.

In recent years, the tools available for life science researchers have advanced at spectacular speed, and Gladstone pioneered several methods — consider cellular reprogramming and bioinformatics — that transcend any single disease.