Not exact matches
Two weeks after the experimental myocardial infarctions, the Seattle researchers
injected 1 billion heart muscle
cells derived from
human embryonic stem cells, called
human embryonic stem cell - derived cardiomyocytes, into the infarcted muscle.
We take a
human embryonic stem cell, and we
inject it into a monkey blastocyst [the first 130 or so
cells in a newly formed embryo].
Jason Lee / Reuters In the next few months, surgeons in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou will carefully drill through the skulls of people with Parkinson's disease and
inject 4 million immature neurons derived from
human embryonic stem cells into their brains.
The
cells, derived from iPS
cells, RPE
stem cells, or
human embryonic stem cells, are grown and differentiated in the lab, then placed in a harmless fluid to be
injected.
A UCLA ophthalmologist
injected each woman with 50,000 retinal
cells derived from
human embryonic stem cells, and according to the paper, both claim to have better vision as a result.