Sentences with phrase «how human skin cells»

Gage and Ghosh discuss how human skin cells induced to return to an immature state («induced pluripotent stem cells» or IPS cells) are revolutionizing our understanding and treatment of mental and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, as well as leading to new models of drug development for all diseases.

Gladstone scientists study how human skin cells can be reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, and they are working to refine the production of these cells.

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In a rare appearance Dr. Chandan Sen, Director, OSU Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell - Based Therapies will explain how this breakthrough came about and how the technology is leading to other medical discoveries and how the principle can be used to generate any tissue out of skin or fat which is abundant in human body.

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.

To decipher how cells perform this recognition task, Tsao and postdoc Steven Le Chang generated 2,000 human mug shots with variations in 50 features, including facial roundness, distance between the eyes, and skin tone and texture.

How did you feel when you realised you had made human embryonic - like cells from skin cells?

Similarly, the three research teams that last week reported turning mouse skin cells into embryolike cells say they will have to study embryonic cells to learn how to reprogram human cells in the same way and to understand their potential.

In their paper, publishing today in Biofabrication, the team show how they utilise 3D bioprinting to control the distribution of melanin - producing skin cells (melanocytes) on a biomimetic tissue substrate, to produce human - like skin pigmentation.

Dr. Yamanaka's discovery — how to transform ordinary adult skin cells into stem cells that, like embryonic stem cells, can develop into any cell in the human body.

A decade later, scientists figured out how to generate another type of all - purpose cell from human skin, known as induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS.

In findings appearing online today in Cell Stem Cell, researchers in the laboratory of Gladstone Investigator Yadong Huang, MD, PhD, describe how they transferred a single gene called Sox2 into both mouse and human skin cells.

We are improving how we reprogram human skin cells into heart cells, and are investigating the most rapidly evolving areas of the human genome to better understand human disease and evolution.

Shinya Yamanaka MD, PhD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of how to transform ordinary adult skin cells into cells that, like embryonic stem cells, are capable of developing into any cell in the human body.

Sheng Ding, PhD, has discovered how to turn human skin cells into insulin - producing pancreatic cells.