Sentences with phrase «human skin cells called»

Xu and his team, which includes researchers from Penn's departments of Dermatology and Biology, as well as the New Jersey Institute of Technology, started with human skin cells called dermal fibroblasts.

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We referred to the news that these cells, called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), could be made from human skin....

For the new study, the team used a cell - reprogramming technique (similar to those used to reprogram skin cells into stem cells) to generate human DRG - type sensory neurons from ordinary skin cells called fibroblasts.

Researchers at the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME) in Nottingham, have just finished the first stage of development, which draws on research showing that human skin cells produce chemicals called cytokines when exposed to chemicals that are irritants.

The ability of scientists to convert human skin cells into other cell types, such as neurons, has the potential to enhance understanding of disease and lead to finding new ways to heal damaged tissues and organs, a field called regenerative medicine.

«We used human skin cells that we obtained from patients affected with ALS and converted them into neurons via a technology called induced pluripotent stem cell production,» she explains.

Using a process called cellular reprogramming, the researchers take a patient's skin cells, convert them into so - called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which can differentiate into all the cells within the human body.

Instead, they simply exposed human skin cells to four natural gene switches, called transcription factors.

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.