Sentences with phrase «functional kidney cells»
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WHAT makes an unspecialised cell turn into a fully functional kidney, liver or blood cell?
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«Having a supply of these cells could be a starting point to grow functional organs in the laboratory as well as a way to begin applying cell therapy to kidneys with malfunctioning genes.»
The results, which appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), point to new avenues for research into the processes that direct cells to form functional kidney structures.
ViaCyte, Inc. (CA, USA) has received a Small Business Innovative Research Phase III award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK; MD, USA) to further the development of stem cell - derived functional human beta cells in vitro.
«The development of a functional human kidney glomerulus chip opens up an entirely new experimental path to investigate kidney biology, carry out highly personalized modeling of kidney diseases and drug toxicities, and the stem cell - derived kidney podocytes we developed could even offer a new injectable cell therapy approach for regenerative medicine in patients with life - threatening glomerulopathies in the future,» said Ingber.