Sentences with phrase «ips cells from blood»

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He notes his company had planned this year to apply to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to use red blood cells and platelets derived from iPS cells in clinical trials, but «at this point, therapies with these cells are years off.»

In a related paper published online today in Nature Biotechnology, Konrad Hochedlinger of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge and his colleagues compared the gene expression patterns in mouse iPS cells derived from white blood cells, muscle precursor cells, immune system cells called B cells, and fibroblasts taken from tail tips.

For instance, CiRA's Kohei Yamamizu recently reported developing a cellular model of the blood — brain barrier made entirely from human iPS cells.

Although embryonic stem cells are naturally pluripotent, iPS cells are created by scientists from existing adult cells, such as skin or blood.

Blood from mice treated with iPS cells (above) does not show the sickle - shaped cells present in untreated mice (top).

We can obtain iPS cells from an individual's skin or blood and program them into different tissue types to create patient - specific Organ - Chips.

Blood cells derived from iPS cells also have other obstacles: an inability to engraft into organs or bone marrow and a likelihood of developing tumors.

Efficient human iPS cell derivation by a non-integrating plasmid from blood cells with unique epigenetic and gene expression signatures.

Standardize and scale up production of identical induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which are stem cells made from an individual's own skin or blood cells.