The milestones of the two - year project include generating engineered exosomes
from mouse stem cells and evaluating their potential to fuse with the GnRH cells.
Researchers have successfully created functional sperm cells
from mouse stem cells in the laboratory, then implanted those cells into rodents» egg cells to produce healthy, fertile offspring.
Researchers from Japan's RIKEN institute announced in April that they have grown skin
from mouse stem cells in a process that one day may help skin graft recipients.
«Physical forces are certainly a factor in getting the lung lining to be fully functional,» says Anne Bishop at Imperial College London, who has made alveolar cells
from mouse stem cells using growth factors alone.
Not exact matches
The embryos, which were genetically modified to prevent them
from growing their own pancreases, were injected with
mouse pluripotent
stem cells that formed into a pancreas.
The new tissue wasn't rejected since they
stemmed from the
mice's cells in the first place.
«What made sense
from an R&D perspective, in terms of our understanding of
mouse stem cells, made total sense
from a product perspective if you realize our customers are cats,» Bethencourt says.
In 2010, researchers
from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer
stem cells in
mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cells.
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This need
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In the March 22 online issue of Cancer Research, scientists explained how they injected triple negative breast cancer
stem cells
from patients into
mice.
Injections of killed
stem cells, designed to help the immune system recognise cancers, have been found to protect
mice from developing tumours
Once a gene is gone, researchers grow
mice from the
stem cells to see what happens.
To see whether this also applies to humans, the team engineered
stem cells
from people with and without Down's syndrome and injected them into
mice.
The researchers confirmed this hypothesis by showing that if they blocked YAP1 they could inhibit
stem cells
from undergoing self - renewal, forming blood vessel - like structures, and reduce lung cancer cell growth in
mice.
And the transformed cells proved to be very similar to actual
stem cells
from both
mice and humans.
After receiving an injection of neural
stem cells
from young
mice, however, they performed as well as healthy
mice did.
Stem cells created
from unfertilized
mice eggs are successfully transplanted without immune rejection
He and his boss,
stem cell researcher Donald Phinney, wondered whether those
mice were also protected
from the fattening of the bone marrow that accompanies a high - fat diet.
In experiments on normal and MLL cells
from mice and humans, the researchers demonstrated that beta - catenin is activated in cancer
stem cells that prompt leukaemic blood cells to multiply.
Currently, Deng's laboratory is conducting additional preclinical studies using the human - derived
stem cells
from Down syndrome patients and
mouse models to determine whether cellular and behavioral abnormalities can be improved with minocycline therapy and other candidate drugs.
By promoting DNA demethylation, high - dose vitamin C treatment induced
stem cells to mature, and also suppressed the growth of leukemia cancer
stem cells
from human patients implanted in
mice.
Current research is looking at why inhibiting certain molecules, such as
mouse protein Stat3, promote muscle regeneration in
mice and how to engineer orthopedic implants
from stem cells to replace damaged cartilage and bone, but the results of that effort aren't expected to be necessarily aimed at the old.
But in this case, the undifferentiated
stem cells, harvested
from 14 - day - old
mouse brains, did not simply replace neurons that had died off.
«When we transplanted our labeled blood
stem cells
from the bone marrow into other
mice, only a few
stem cells were active in the recipients, and many
stem cells were lost,» Rodewald explains.
Scientists have previously shown that isolated germline
stem cells
from mice can turn into eggs in a petri dish.
Dr. Katrin Busch
from Rodewald's team developed genetically modified
mice by introducing a protein into their blood
stem cells that sends out a yellow fluorescent signal.
For one study in 2012 in Frontiers in Immunology, scientists
from Canada injected these
stem - recognizing antibodies into
mice to see if the
mice were shielded
from a different strain of flu.
The two reports also showed that Zika virus infected and damaged neuronal
stem cells harvested
from mice and humans.
Scientists
from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have developed a way to equip
mouse blood
stem cells with a fluorescent marker that can be switched on
from the outside.
In July 2006, biologist Karim Nayernia at the University of Newcastle - upon - Tyne in the UK, and colleagues reported they had successfully converted
stem cells
from mouse embryos into functioning sperm that could fertilise
mouse eggs and produce live offspring.
During embryonic development of
mice, however, the situation is different: To build up the system, all mature blood and immune cells develop much more rapidly and almost completely
from stem cells.
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.
For his prototype he is growing
mouse muscle
from stem cells in a petri dish.
A subset of the implanted human
stem cells matured into rotund, humanlike astrocytes in the animals» brains, taking over operations
from the native
mouse astrocytes.
In a related paper published online today in Nature Biotechnology, Konrad Hochedlinger of the Harvard
Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge and his colleagues compared the gene expression patterns in
mouse iPS cells derived
from white blood cells, muscle precursor cells, immune system cells called B cells, and fibroblasts taken
from tail tips.
The research team used mass spectrometry to compare phosphorylation of proteins
from mouse embryonic
stem cells with fully functioning GSK - 3 to cells in which the gene encoding GSK - 3 had been deleted.
Transplants grown
from stem cells in the lab can help replenish the blood and have been used to cure anaemia in
mice.
Loss of either GSTO1 or RYR1, the researchers report, decreased the number of cancer
stem cells in the primary tumor, blocked metastasis of cancer cells
from the primary tumor to the lungs, decreased the duration of chemotherapy required to induce remission and increased the duration of time after chemotherapy was stopped that the
mice remained tumor - free.
These organoids had more
stem cells than those isolated
from wild - type
mice.
Stem cells harvested
from embryos rather than adults remain the most powerful for cloning and other purposes; Yang's team showed that cloning
from such cells succeeded in 49 percent of attempts and led to 18
mouse pups.
In a new study the PhD students Jan Hoeber, Niclas König and Carl Trolle, working in Dr.Elena Kozlova's research group transplanted human
stem cells to an avulsion injury in
mice with the aim to restore a functional route for sensory information
from peripheral tissues into the spinal cord.
Bone marrow mesenchymal
stem cells and bone cells
from the skulls of Cbf - beta - deficient
mice showed increased expression of adipocyte genes.
Both groups isolated carefully characterized blood
stem cells
from genetically marked
mice.
The paper doesn't include any genetic analysis of the final eggs that confirms they are healthy, notes Mitinori Saitou, a
stem cell biologist at Kyoto University in Japan whose team developed methods to create
mouse egg cells
from embryonic or reprogrammed
stem cells.
Starting in the mid-2000s, Yoshiki Sasai's team at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, demonstrated how to grow brainlike structures using embryonic
stem cells, first
from mice and then humans.
The scientists first compared
mouse megakaryocyte cells created
from embryonic
stem cells engineered to lack p45 - Nfe2 with normal megakaryocytes.
Egg and sperm - like cells have recently been derived
from animal
stem cells, and this year the first
mice were born
from lab - grown sperm.
The team could isolate muscle
stem cells
from the male
mice before they died and when they transplanted them into muscle - damaged recipient
mice, they found that the
stem cells were able to regenerate new muscle.
The researchers implanted
stem cells
from mouse embryos into the brains of rats and
mice whose dopamine - producing neurons had been obliterated by a toxin.