Sentences with phrase «human skin cells directly»

Scientists have discovered a new way to convert human skin cells directly into motor neurons (above).

Another team, from Stanford University, converted human skin cells directly into neurons without first stopping at the stem cell stage, potentially making the process more efficient.

In an advance that could solve many of the ethical and technical issues involved in stem cell research, two groups of scientists have independently converted human skin cells directly into stem cells without creating or destroying embryos.

Using viral gene insertion and regulatory proteins, researchers turned adult human skin cells directly into adult human blood cells, without first returning them to a fully pluripotent state.

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The skin was changed directly into what appears to be functional adult human blood cells.

«It appeared we wouldn't be able to create enough human OPCs for widespread therapeutic use, so we began to wonder if we could create them directly from skin cells.»

«Human skin cells transformed directly into motor neurons.»

One team in Japan, and another in the US, have independently shown it is possible to produce embryonic - like stem cells directly from a patient's own skin cells without having to create and destroy a cloned human embryo first.

Human skin cells have also been directly converted into neurons that can be used to study and find treatments for diseases in the brain, as well as liver cells and insulin - producing cells of the pancreas.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — June 28, 2012 — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and an international team of researchers have generated a human model of Huntington's disease — directly from the skin cells of patients with the disease.

Meanwhile, Dr. Mick Bhatia's group at the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University found a way to make human skin cells sing «Any Way You Want Me,» turning directly into blood cells without a pluripotent cell step in betwCell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University found a way to make human skin cells sing «Any Way You Want Me,» turning directly into blood cells without a pluripotent cell step in betwcell step in between.