Not exact matches
According to Science Daily, Dr. Nagy, senior investigator at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, there is a «new method of generating
stem cells that does not require embryos as starting points and could be used to generate cells
from many adult tissues such as a patient's own
skin cells.»
Scientists looking for new methods to make human tissue have successfully used cloning technology to create embryonic
stem cells
from skin cells.
We referred to the news that these cells, called induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPSCs), could be made
from human
skin....
We need to put our petty differences aside and come to the conclusion, that no matter what we believe in, what colour our
skin is or what nationality we
stem from, it is our community, family, church, government and our company that feeds these messages of hate.
Peel the blistered
skin away
from the chiles and discard the
stem and seeds.
Packaging for the seasonal Captain Morgan Jack - O - Blast limited - edition pumpkin spiced rum bottle looks and feels like a real pumpkin
from the
skin - tight orange shrink - film wrap to the rough - textured
stem - like over-the-cap port
1/4 cup achiote paste (available
from MexGrocer.com) 1/2 cup bitter orange juice, or substitute 1/4 cut orange juice and 1/4 cup lime juice 4 chicken breasts,
skin removed 1 medium onion, sliced 3 fresh banana chiles, seeds and
stems removed, chopped 1 tablespoon vegetable oil Banana leaves or aluminum foil 4 fresh sprigs epazote or substitute 1 tablespoon dried epazote (available
from MexGrocer.com) 4 tablespoons butter
Once cool, remove
stem, seeds, and tough
skin from the chiles.
* 1/2 inch piece fresh ginger, peeled * 1/4 lemon,
skin and all * 1 - 2 cored apples * 5 stalks kale (
stems removed) * flesh
from 1 avocado * pinch of celtic sea salt * dash of water
1 bunch kale —
stems removed, leaves chopped into bite size pieces 1/2 medium kabocha squash or other winter squash — roughly chopped,
skin removed 1 tablespoon coconut oil 1 large onion — finely chopped 1 tablespoon curry powder (I used homemade curry
from this amazing book) sea salt 1 1/2 cup warm good quality vegetable broth 1 cup unsweetened canned coconut milk, plus more if needed 1/2 lime — juice Parmesan or sheep / goat milk feta — to taste, optional freshly ground black pepper 1 - 2 tablespoon finely chopped parsley
Peel off and discard the charred
skins from the peppers and eggplants, along with the
stems and seeds.
Remove
skin,
stems, and seeds
from chiles; chop flesh into 1/4» pieces.
Not only will they avoid issues like regular
skin irritation, but they'll also have a better immune system to fight off any infections that may later
stem from it.
Kids have a hard time wrapping their mind around nutrition, but they can appreciate things like healthy body weight and clear
skin, both of which
stem from a healthy diet.
Whether a person's
skin is dry, oily, discolored or experiencing premature aging, the problem
stems from a lack of amino acids.»
While scientists have previously had success in 3D printing a range of human
stem cell cultures developed
from bone marrow or
skin cells, a team
from Scotland's Heriot - Watt University claims to be the first to print the more delicate, yet more flexible, human embryonic
stem cells (hESCs).
To develop their «disease in a dish» model, the team took
skin cells
from patients with Allan - Herndon - Dudley syndrome and reprogrammed them into induced pluripotent
stem cells, which then can be developed into any type of tissue in the body.
Toxicologist Thomas Hartung described these minibrains, grown
from stem cells derived
from people's
skin cells, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The researchers say that they can grow the stomach organoids
from both embryonic
stem cells and
skin cells induced to pluripotency.
Beginning in the 1970s, physicians learned how to harvest
skin stem cells
from a patient with extensive burn wounds, grow them in the laboratory, then apply the lab - grown tissue to close and protect a patient's wounds.
So Izpisúa Belmonte and his colleagues harvested fibroblasts, which are far more common than
stem cells,
from the
skin of people with the bone marrow disease Fanconi anaemia.
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 neural progenitor cells used were derived
from iPSCs (induced pluripotent
stem cells), which were in turn derived
from donor
skin cells.
Confusion over why people with darker
skin might use indoor tanning
stems from an incomplete understanding of why people tan in the first place, Blashill said.
Finally, he would suck out
stem - cell - rich fat
from the patient's belly and inject it into a layer under the dermis to replenish the fat that keeps
skin elastic and soft.
To investigate the role of astroglia in Down syndrome, the research team took
skin cells
from individuals with Down syndrome and transformed them into
stem cells, which are known as induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPSC).
A TECHNIQUE for making
stem cells
from adult
skin cells without tinkering with their DNA could herald a breakthrough in the quest for
stem - cell therapies that do not rely on embryo - derived cells.
A promising alternative to hESCs emerged in 2006 when researchers produced so - called induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPS)
from ordinary tissue such as
skin.
Last year Loring transformed
skin cells
from the drill, a silver - bearded African monkey, into a pluripotent
stem cell that can form many different tissue types.
They then tried to reprogram
skin cells
from the animals, turning them into induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPS), which are capable of forming other types of cell.
Thanks to crucial contributions
from three young lab members, he said, his team succeeded in converting mature
skin cells into pluripotent
stem cells.
This year they succeeded in generating mini-livers, or liver buds,
from stem cells that were taken
from human
skin and reprogrammed to an embryonic state.
In May 2013, Mitalipov was the first scientist in the world to demonstrate the successful use of somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT, to produce human embryonic
stem cells
from an individual's
skin cell.
The research team took
skin fibroblast tissue
from adult mole - rats and reprogrammed the cells to revert to pluripotent
stem cells.
In one promising approach, cellular reprogramming,
stem cells can be generated by fusing adult
skin cells with embryonic
stem cells
from existing cell lines.
The new epidermis, grown
from human pluripotent
stem cells, offers a cost - effective alternative lab model for testing drugs and cosmetics, and could also help to develop new therapies for rare and common
skin disorders.
Zheng, together with Leah Boyer, then a researcher in Gage's lab and now director of Salk's
Stem Cell Core, generated diseased neurons by taking skin cells from patients with Leigh syndrome, reprogramming them into stem cells in culture and then coaxing them to develop into brain cells in a d
Stem Cell Core, generated diseased neurons by taking
skin cells
from patients with Leigh syndrome, reprogramming them into
stem cells in culture and then coaxing them to develop into brain cells in a d
stem cells in culture and then coaxing them to develop into brain cells in a dish.
«
Skin layer grown
from human
stem cells could replace animals in drug, cosmetics testing.»
The disease model, described in a new study by a UC San Francisco - led team, involves taking
skin cells
from patients with the bone disease, reprogramming them in a lab dish to their embryonic state, and deriving
stem cells
from them.
In the present study, her team took
skin cells
from patients with lissencephaly and turned them into iPS cells, which they then cultivated under special conditions into neuronal
stem cells and neurons that are copies of those in the patients» brains.
For the purpose of additional experiments, the researchers generated myocardial cells
from embryonic
stem cells and human
skin cells, in collaboration with the lab headed by Prof Dr Jürgen Hescheler at the University of Cologne.
A small
skin sample
from a person with bipolar disorder can yield
stem cells that can be coaxed to become neurons just like those in the brain.
Stem cell source: Obtained
from skin or blood cells of patients.
He and his colleagues report online in Nature that in mouse papilloma tumors, a precursor to
skin cancer, most of the tumor growth came
from a few cells, which in some ways resembled the
stem cells that maintain healthy
skin.
Organlike tissue bits can be generated
from pluripotent
stem cells that are either plucked
from embryos or created by taking a person's adult
skin or blood cells and chemically inducing them to revert to an embryonic - like state.
In the past few months, researchers in the United States and Japan have described a promising way of deriving embryonic
stem cells
from skin cells (of mice) without destroying embryos — the «Holy Grail of biotechnology,» as The Times of London put it.
They then showed that removing Tregs
from the
skin significantly reduced Notch signaling in follicle
stem cells, and that replacing Tregs with microscopic beads covered in Jag1 protein restored Notch signaling in the
stem cells and successfully activated follicle regeneration.
Although embryonic
stem cells are naturally pluripotent, iPS cells are created by scientists
from existing adult cells, such as
skin or blood.
Using fluorescent markers, Fuchs and her colleagues isolated two distinct populations of
stem cells
from mouse
skin.
The technique allows scientists to make
stem cells
from, for instance, a patient's
skin cells.