Sentences with phrase «important in embryonic stem cells»

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It has been recognized in the scientific community that the use of embryonic stem cells in research will become more and more important.

Of course, such embryonic stem cells are not available in adult patients, so being able to create them from regular cells is an important step.

Using a nuclear protein expressed in follicle stem cells (FSCs), the researchers found that castor, which plays an important role in specifying which types of brain cells are produced during embryonic development, also helps maintain FSCs throughout the life of the animal.

This study provides experimental evidence which shows the important role of RNA levels in the controlling the fate of embryonic stem cells, and shows an understanding of RNA's ability to differentiate stem cells at the molecular level.

This finding contradicts the field's presumptions about this important gene and its role in the differentiation of embryonic stem cells.

This Korean researcher racked up a series of important advances in embryonic stem cell technology, including the first lines of cells from patients

Dr Ludovic Vallier, co-author on the study from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, said: «This study represents an important step in understanding human embryonic development.

Embryonic stem cells, discovered in the Department of Genetics in the 1980s (for which Sir Martin Evans was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007), have become an important tool for developmental biology, understanding disease, and in regenerative medicine due to the ability to give rise to all cell types in culture.

The aorta - gonad - mesonephros (AGM) region in the aortic wall appears to be the most important source of new blood cells, and it has been found to contain numerous hematopoietic stem cells by day 11 of mouse embryonic development.

Specter on Monday introduced a bill that affirmatively states that it is legal for the government to fund human embryonic stem cell research — a bill highly similar to the one introduced in the House in March by Diana DeGette (Democrat, Colorado), with one important extra: Specter's bill states that the government should fund the research «notwithstanding any other provision of law, including [the Dickey - Wicker amendment].»

Embryonic stem (ES) cells are important tools in the study of gene function and may also become important in cell therapy applications.

Zernicka - Goetz's research could also lead to important advancements in the study of embryonic stem cell therapy applications.

The creation of iPSCs began by studying proteins not only uniquely expressed in embryonic stem cells, but proteins known to be functionally important in creating the unique properties of these cells.

This collaboration also showed that Gcn5 is important for Myc - mediated stem cell self - renewal in embryonic stem cells.

Using cloning technology to derive embryonic stem cells genetically identical to a patient is potentially very important, not only to provide a source of cells that may be used to cure patients, but also to allow for genetic disease to be studied and potential drug treatments to be explored in the laboratory.

An important concept in this research is pluripotency ---- the ability of the human embryonic stem cell to differentiate or become almost any cell in the body, explained senior author Kenneth S. Kosik, professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology (MCDB).

Coinciding with CIRM's goals, three of the floors planned for renovation will accommodate the collaborative work of top stem cell researcher and UCSB professor James Thompson, who was the first to isolate human embryonic cells in 1998; the new Mellichamp and Ruth Garland Chairs of bioengineering and molecular mechanisms, respectively; and the «Deep Sequencing Core,» which will house, among other things, a device that will help develop new genetic approaches to important cell biology inquiries.