Sentences with phrase «kind of cell in the body»

This type of cell, first developed about five years ago, has the ability to turn into any other kind of cell in the body.

Stem cells are renowned for their regenerative capacity, able to grow into many different kinds of cells in the body.

Preliminary tests show that the newly created cells can develop into nerve cells, heart cells, or any other kind of cell in the body.

Two, it might establish a valuable new use for stem cells: unspecialized cells able to give rise to many different kinds of cells in the body.

With no set identity, it can become any kind of cell in the body.

In what may presage an intellectual property battle, Rudolf Jaenisch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and Konrad Hochedlinger of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston will be awarded a patent on a technique for turning adult mammalian cells into stem cells that can in principle become any kind of cell in the body.

The Hinxton Group's prediction comes in the wake of recent news that scientists at the University of Wisconsin and Kyoto University in Japan have transformed adult human skin cells into pluripotent stem cells, the powerhouse cells that can self - replicate (perhaps indefinitely) and develop into almost any kind of cell in the body.

Several labs have tried to create sperm in a dish from stem cells derived from early embryos, because they can differentiate into any kind of cell in the body.

Late last year, two teams announced that they had managed to keep embryonic and fetal human cells at their maximum potential, ready to be steered into becoming any kind of cell in the body.

Embryonic stem cells hold particular promise as they can either renew themselves indefinitely or differentiate into any kind of cell in the body — a property known as pluripotency.

This finding not only tells us something new about stem cell regulation, but opens up the ability to study differences in protein synthesis between many kinds of cells in the body.

by Andrew Moseman When scientists first created induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) three years ago, they were hailed as a game - changing advance for medicine: Scientists hoped the engineered cells could duplicate the talents of embryonic stem cells, which can develop into any kind of cell in the body, while avoiding the destruction of embryos.

And if they can't read that manual, the cells regain their full stem cell power — the power to become any kind of cell in the body.