Sentences with phrase «grown from embryonic stem cells»

Muscle cells are stained green in this micrograph of cells grown from embryonic stem cells.

The ViaCyte product contains immature beta cells, grown from the embryonic stems cells.

Not exact matches

Da Cruz and his team grew replacement RPE cells from human embryonic stem cells on a thin plastic scaffold, before transplanting the tissue into the back of each volunteer's eye.

Two people with severe sight loss can now see well enough to read after receiving tissue grown from human embryonic stem cells.

The researchers say that they can grow the stomach organoids from both embryonic stem cells and skin cells induced to pluripotency.

In addition, where cells derived from embryonic stem cells are great at proliferating — a potentially critical feature if one wants to grow sufficient numbers of cells for clinical use — ones from the iPS lines were much feebler.

Stem cells from breast milk can grow into many other kinds of human tissue, raising hopes of an ethical source of embryonic - like stem cStem cells from breast milk can grow into many other kinds of human tissue, raising hopes of an ethical source of embryonic - like stem cstem cells

As a graduate student at Princeton University, Moshe Pritsker tried in vain to grow a culture of embryonic stem cells from instructions laid out in the methods section of a journal article.

The stem cells, derived from human umbilical cord - blood and coaxed into an embryonic - like state, were grown without the conventional use of viruses, which can mutate genes and initiate cancers, according to the scientists.

Because burgeoning teeth depend on information from the budding embryonic jaw, work toward generating replacement teeth from dental stem cells focuses on growing them in the desired location in the recipient's mouth — but scientists are not yet sure the adult jaw can provide the necessary signals to shape made - to - order teeth.

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.

Other researchers grew organoids from induced pluripotent stem cells, which resemble embryonic stem cells but are grown from adult cells.

Twenty percent of the cells cloned in this way grew into early embryos, called blastocysts, and 5 percent of them yielded embryonic stem cells, which is comparable with results obtained from unfertilized eggs.

Scientists have already reported progress in growing precursor cells for eggs and sperm from both iPS and embryonic stem cell lines.

In 2009, Reijo Pera showed that it is possible to generate functional, sperm - producing germ cells from human embryonic stem cells grown under certain conditions in the laboratory.

by Paroma Basu Scientists grow critical nerve cells MADISON, WI — January 31, 2005 — After years of trial and error, scientists have coaxed human embryonic stem cells to become spinal motor neurons, critical nervous system pathways that relay messages from the brain to the rest of the body.

NeuroStemcell is focused on the identification and systematic comparison of progenitor cell lines with the most favourable characteristics for mesDA and striatal GABAergic neuronal differentiation, generated either directly from human embryonic stem (ES) cells, from Neural Stem (NS) cells derived from ES cells or fetal brain, from induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells or from in vitro short - term expanded neural progenitors from ventral midbrain grown as neurospheres (VMN, Ventral Midbrain Neurospheres) 4, and perform rigorous and systematic testing of the most prominent candidate cells in appropriate animals modstem (ES) cells, from Neural Stem (NS) cells derived from ES cells or fetal brain, from induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells or from in vitro short - term expanded neural progenitors from ventral midbrain grown as neurospheres (VMN, Ventral Midbrain Neurospheres) 4, and perform rigorous and systematic testing of the most prominent candidate cells in appropriate animals modStem (NS) cells derived from ES cells or fetal brain, from induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells or from in vitro short - term expanded neural progenitors from ventral midbrain grown as neurospheres (VMN, Ventral Midbrain Neurospheres) 4, and perform rigorous and systematic testing of the most prominent candidate cells in appropriate animals modStem (iPS) cells or from in vitro short - term expanded neural progenitors from ventral midbrain grown as neurospheres (VMN, Ventral Midbrain Neurospheres) 4, and perform rigorous and systematic testing of the most prominent candidate cells in appropriate animals models.

About 10 years ago, Zhang was the first in the world to grow motor neurons from human embryonic stem cells.

Other groups are using human embryonic stem cells, and others are exploring RPE - specific stem cells that can be grown from the adult RPE, for example, from eyes donated to eye banks.

The lab, called the MStem Cell Laboratories, derived embryonic stem cells from the embryo, and coaxed them to grow into nerve cells.

The cells, derived from iPS cells, RPE stem cells, or human embryonic stem cells, are grown and differentiated in the lab, then placed in a harmless fluid to be injected.

In a bid to harness the potential of embryonic stem cells, surgeons in California have implanted lab - grown retinal cells into the eyes of two patients going blind from macular degeneration.

But the application describes ViaCyte's technology, which grows pancreatic «islet» cells from human embryonic stem cells.

ViaCyte grows replacement insulin - producing cells from human embryonic stem cells, which are placed in a semipermeable pouch.

Although anti-abortion groups oppose embryonic stem cell research because they believe it destroys unborn human life and that it threatens to expand that destruction as stem cell research grows increasingly beneficial to humans already born and suffering from disease and debilitation, embryonic stem cells now are reproduced in labs from cells derived years ago from originals.

However welcome the recent announcement that a team of scientists based at Newcastle University, has grown a section of human liver using stem cells from umbilical cords, rather than from the more controversial source of embryonic stem cells, and whatever the eventual promise or potential of harvesting organs for transplantation from genetically modified pigs, the benefits of either of these two pioneering techniques to currently dying / suffering patients, remain both elusive and distant.