The finding potentially paves the way for scores of labs to
generate new stem cell lines without cloned embryos, which had long been considered the only realistic way of making human stem cells in the short run.
Not exact matches
Intestinal
stem cells are particularly important because a
new intestinal
lining is
generated about every 4 - 5 days.
Salk scientists and colleagues have proposed
new molecular criteria for judging just how close any
line of laboratory -
generated stem cells comes to mimicking embryonic
cells seen in the very earliest stages of human development, known as naïve
stem cells.
A team led by Young - sup Yoon, MD, PhD developed a
new method for
generating endothelial
cells, which make up the
lining of blood vessels, from human induced pluripotent
stem cells..