Sentences with phrase «diseased human somatic cells»

More recently, researchers have induced stem cells from diseased human somatic cells, which may serve as new model systems for various illnesses.

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The survey, described today in a Policy Forum published by Science, randomly presented people with different vignettes that described genome editing being used in germline or somatic cells to either treat disease or enhance a human with, say, a gene linked to higher IQ or eye color.

Human embryonic stem cells derived from affected embryos during a pre-implantation diagnostic (PGD), as well as the conversion of somatic cells, such as skin fibroblasts, into induced pluripotent stem cells by genetic manipulation, offer the unique opportunity to have access to a large spectrum of disease - specific cell models.

Disease - specific human pluripotent stem cells, from embryonic origin or derived from reprogramming somatic cells, offer the unique opportunity to have access to a large spectrum of disease - specific cell Disease - specific human pluripotent stem cells, from embryonic origin or derived from reprogramming somatic cells, offer the unique opportunity to have access to a large spectrum of disease - specific cell disease - specific cell models.

The reprogramming of human somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) offers tremendous potential for cell therapy, basic research, disease modeling, and drug development.

Reprogramming human somatic cells to pluripotency represents a valuable resource for the development of in vitro based models for human disease and holds tremendous potential for deriving patient - specific pluripotent stem cells.