Sentences with phrase «laboratory from embryonic stem cells»
A team of UK stem cell scientists, led by Dr. Robin Ali from UCL Institute of Ophthalmology in London, has developed a new strategy for repairing the retina by transplanting photoreceptor cells generated in the laboratory from embryonic stem cells.
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Although British researchers had discovered embryonic stem cells in laboratory animals in 1981, it wasn't until 1998 that a Wisconsin team announced it had isolated stem cells from human embryos for the first time.
In particular, opponents of embryonic stem cell research have repeatedly pointed to the supposed power of stem cells extracted from the adult body, which in the hands of at least one laboratory seemed to nearly match that of embryonic stem cells.
One of the greatest achievements in recent biomedical research was in 2006 when Shinya Yamanaka managed to create embryonic stem cells (pluripotent stem cells, induced in vitro, or in vitro iPSCs) in a laboratory from adult cells, via a cocktail of just four genes.
In 2009, Reijo Pera showed that it is possible to generate functional, sperm - producing germ cells from human embryonic stem cells grown under certain conditions in the laboratory.
In addition, Dr. Reinholdt's laboratory developed a novel protocol for derivation of embryonic stem cell line from a variety of strains that were previously deemed recalcitrant after years of failed attempts by the scientific community.
In the new study, 12 patients will be treated with healthy scavenger cells, created in a laboratory from human embryonic stem cells.