Sentences with phrase «lab from embryonic stem cells»

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For example, animal studies have shown that neurons derived in the lab from human embryonic stem cells improve Parkinson's symptoms; however, any residual stem cells associated with those neurons could form masses of unwanted cells.

The disease model, described in a new study by a UC San Francisco - led team, involves taking skin cells from patients with the bone disease, reprogramming them in a lab dish to their embryonic state, and deriving stem cells from them.

For the purpose of additional experiments, the researchers generated myocardial cells from embryonic stem cells and human skin cells, in collaboration with the lab headed by Prof Dr Jürgen Hescheler at the University of Cologne.

By contrast, embryonic stem cells are culled from embryos created and frozen in fertility labs.

The only previous trial using ES cells to treat Parkinson's began last year in Australia; participants there received stem cells from parthenogenetic embryos — unfertilized eggs that are triggered in the lab to start embryonic development.

The answer to this question comes from the lab of Marcel Leist (University of Konstanz, Germany) and their studies employing a defined and controllable in vitro system of post-mitotic murine astrocytes generated from embryonic stem cells (mAGES)[1].

Scientists in the lab have successfully generated neural stem cells (NCS) from human embryonic stem cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells (these are stem cells that have been reprogrammed from adult cells).

Recently, his lab used induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — adult cells made to act like embryonic stem cells — made from skin cells of patients carrying apoE4, or other mutations related to Alzheimer's, to study their effects on the development, survival, and degeneration of human neurons.

According to the National Institutes of Health, most embryonic stem cells come from eggs fertilized for in vitro treatments in a lab, not from eggs fertilized in a women's body.

Labs that derive new human embryonic stem cell lines are few, partly because they can not get financial support from federal sources.

The lab, called the MStem Cell Laboratories, derived embryonic stem cells from the embryo, and coaxed them to grow into nerve cells.

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.

In a bid to harness the potential of embryonic stem cells, surgeons in California have implanted lab - grown retinal cells into the eyes of two patients going blind from macular degeneration.

Neural stem cells are found in adult or fetal brain and spinal cord or derived from embryonic stem cells, which have the capacity to become any cell type in the body, or induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, tissue - specific cells that are reprogrammed in the lab to behave like embryonic stem cells.

Although anti-abortion groups oppose embryonic stem cell research because they believe it destroys unborn human life and that it threatens to expand that destruction as stem cell research grows increasingly beneficial to humans already born and suffering from disease and debilitation, embryonic stem cells now are reproduced in labs from cells derived years ago from originals.