Sentences with phrase «change human skin cells»

In the Science study, led by first author Nan Cao, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in Ding's lab, the researchers used a cocktail of nine chemicals to change human skin cells into beating heart cells.

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A clump of cells with no brain, and no neural tube is no more «a human life» than cells from your skin layer, or a sperm cell with no change of fertilizing an egg.

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

The skin was changed directly into what appears to be functional adult human blood cells.