Not exact matches
The mice benefited
from human
stem cells called glial progenitors,
immature cells poised to become astrocytes and other glia
cells, the supposed support
cells of the brain.
This remainder can then be seeded with
immature organ
cells or
stem cells from the intended recipient.
By immersing
stem cells harvested
from men's bone marrow in a cocktail of chemicals that mimic the environment of the testes, Nayernia and his team turned the
stem cells into
immature sperm.
The researchers tested their technique on such cultivated
stem cells of both a mature and
immature type, and on donated human embryos left over
from IVF treatments.
Jason Lee / Reuters In the next few months, surgeons in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou will carefully drill through the skulls of people with Parkinson's disease and inject 4 million
immature neurons derived
from human embryonic
stem cells into their brains.
Researchers had developed the technologies needed to create organoids years before — how to grow
cells in culture, how to isolate
stem cells from human tissue, and how to coax the
stem cells, undifferentiated and
immature, to become specific types of
cells at later stages of development.
Salk researchers reprogrammed skins
cells taken
from a sickle
cell disease patient into induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPSCs),
immature cells capable of developing into any type of bodily tissue.
The ViaCyte product contains
immature beta
cells, grown
from the embryonic
stems cells.
Specifically, we're focused on
stem cell maturation — taking a
cell from an
immature to a more mature state so that it acts as a better substrate for adult tissue functions.