Sentences with phrase «directly into brain cells»

Recently, Dr. Ding achieved entirely gene - free chemical reprogramming, using only drugs to turn fibroblasts directly into brain cells.

Some researchers have been trying an alternative route: engineering gene - delivery vehicles such as viruses to transfer neurotrophic - factor genes directly into brain cells.

Not exact matches

In the direct reprogramming, the researchers exposed the adult skin cells to a specific mix of signaling molecules the scientists» past research had found would convert healthy skin cells directly into a type of brain cell called medium spiny neurons, without intermediate steps along the way.

But scientists are making progress in refining these therapies, and the first ever trial of fetal stem cells injected directly into the brain is currently under way in children with Batten disease, a rare and fatal illness of the nervous system.

In the Cell Stem Cell study, Zhiheng Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing sidestepped the mice's natural resistance to Zika virus by injecting a Samoan isolate directly into fetal brains.

Scientists are hopeful that ultimately these cells could be transformed in the laboratory to yield specific cell types needed for a particular treatment, or to cross the «blood - brain barrier» by expressing specific therapeutic agents that are released directly into the brain.

Rather, parasites move directly from the blood into endothelial cells, where they replicate, cause the cell to burst and then infect neighboring brain cells.

For them, Levin thinks «there's a kind of twitchy program going on» in which photosensitive cells — the researchers aren't sure which ones — bypass the brain and directly spur the muscles into movement.

In this method, skin cells are turned directly into brain, heart, liver, or pancreas cells without going through a stem cell stage first.

These cells have the ability to cross the blood - brain barrier and travel directly into the nervous system to improve blood flow to the brain and repair some of the nerve damage which has occurred as a result of your degenerative disease or neurological injury.

The treatment makes these ganglion cells act like photoreceptors, responding to patterns of light that pass through the retina and converting them into patterns of electricity that go directly to the brain.

Human skin cells have also been directly converted into neurons that can be used to study and find treatments for diseases in the brain, as well as liver cells and insulin - producing cells of the pancreas.

«Our approach could lead to a simpler method of creating iPSCs or could be used to directly reprogram skin cells into other cell types, such as heart cells or brain cells.»

The team managed to transform astrocytes (a type of supporting cells in the brain) into neurons directly within the brain of rats.