Sentences with phrase «like embryonic stem»

Dr. Yamanaka's 2006 discovery of a way to turn adult skin cells into cells that act like embryonic stem cells has radically advanced the fields of cell biology and stem - cell research.

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.

By introducing the genes for four factors that turn genes on and off, he induced the skin cells of adult mice to become like embryonic stem cells, which he called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

He showed that skin cells can be reprogrammed into stem cells that, like embryonic stem cells, can develop into virtually any cell type in the body.

Shinya Yamanaka MD, PhD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of how to transform ordinary adult skin cells into cells that, like embryonic stem cells, are capable of developing into any cell in the human body.

Some researchers are using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — tissue - specific cells (usually skin cells, but sometimes other tissue cells) that are reprogrammed in the lab to behave like embryonic stem cells — to grow rods and cones or RPE cells.

And what they found was that after a few days, these genes that they added were able to get the skin cells to start behaving just like embryonic stem cells.

So they felt, well, hmm, if we can boost them in skin stem cells, maybe they'll start behaving like embryonic stem cells.

Cell Stem Cell «Recently three different studies were published demonstrating that mouse fibroblast (skin) cells can be directly reprogrammed to behave like embryonic stem cells.»

This award, named after the Chapter's co-founder Richard Essey and his wife Sheila, this year recognizes the far - reaching, human - health impact of Dr. Yamanaka's Nobel Prize winning discovery of a way to transform adult skin cells into cells that act like embryonic stem cells.

After completing his postdoctoral training at Gladstone, Dr. Yamanaka discovered an innovative technology that transforms ordinary adult skin cells into stem cells that, like embryonic stem cells, can develop into virtually any cell type in the human body.

Also known as iPS cells, these cells can become virtually any cell type in the human body — just like embryonic stem cells.

Another alternative to embryonic stem cells is using pluripotent stem cells, which are adult cells that have been genetically reprogrammed to look and act like embryonic stem cells.

2007 also saw one of the most game - changing developments in the stem cell field; researchers learned how to create cells like embryonic stem cells, but instead of coming from an embryo these cells are created from adult cells, potentially cells from any tissue in the human body.

Pluripotent stem cells — those, like embryonic stem cells, that give rise to almost every type of cell in the body — can be converted into the different classes of retinal cells necessary for vision, according to a new, RPB - supported study from researchers at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y.

Dr. Yamanaka's Nobel prize - winning discovery of a way to turn adult skin cells into so - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) that act like embryonic stem cells has radically advanced the fields of cell biology and stem - cell research.

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.

More Efficient, Effective Approach to Stem Cell Creation Dr. Ding's approach is one of a kind, but his work builds on a revolutionary discovery by another Gladstone scientist — Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, who in 2007 revealed a process for transforming adult skin cells into cells that look and act like embryonic stem cells.

The new cells, which Yamanaka called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, looked and behaved like embryonic stem cells, which are prized for their ability to transform themselves into almost any kind of tissue and, perhaps, someday cure disease — a more distinct possibility now that President Barack Obama has loosened restrictions on stem cell research.

Reprogramming adult cells to function like embryonic stem cells is one way researchers hope to create patient - specific cell lines to regenerate tissue or to study specific diseases in the laboratory.

Dr. Yamanaka's discovery — how to transform ordinary adult skin cells into stem cells that, like embryonic stem cells, can develop into any cell in the human body.

Two months ago, several scientists in Wisconsin and Japan announced that they had successfully created a type of stem cell from ordinary human skin cells that seems to be able to function exactly like an embryonic stem cell without the need to create or destroy human embryos.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) report that they silenced symptoms of Parkinson's disease in rats using skin cells from an adult mouse that they reprogrammed to act like embryonic stem cells.

The study results, published in the journal Cell, revolve around iPSCs, which since their 2006 discovery have enabled researchers to coax mature (fully differentiated) bodily cells (e.g. skin cells) to become like embryonic stem cells.

New study shows that adult skin cells made to differentiate like embryonic stem cells may reverse neurological damage

Skin cells reprogrammed to act like embryonic stem cells — a breakthrough first reported in human cells 2 weeks ago — are already showing promise as a therapeutic agent.

Like embryonic stem cells, iPSC can be differentiated toward any cell type in the body, but they do not require the use of embryos.

One week after a breakthrough finding, scientists report they can reprogram human skin cells to behave like embryonic stem cells without a growth factor known to cause cancer

Instead the team is working with induced pluripotent stem cells, cells that have been reprogrammed to behave like embryonic stem cells, but can be made from a small sample of the intended recipient's own skin.

Now it turns out that IPS cells — just like embryonic stem cells — are fraught with problems of their own.

The ongoing challenge is creating IPS cells that function as much like embryonic stem cells as possible.

«Even if we can make other cells to look like embryonic stem cells, ES cells allow you to investigate unique aspects of human embryonic development.»

Given these facts, I do not understand why we should prefer an ethically and scientifically doubtful method like embryonic stem cell research.

In this way they act like embryonic stem cells and share their revolutionary therapeutic potential — and as such, they could eliminate the need for using and then destroying human embryos.

The act of reprogramming cells to make them as capable as ones from embryos apparently can result in aberrant cells that age and die abnormally, suggesting there is a long way to go to prove such cells are really like embryonic stem cells and can find use in therapies.

In 2006, Japanese scientists figured out how to reprogram specialized cells, such as those in skin, so that they act like embryonic stem cells.

Further ahead, he is looking to an emerging technology known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), in which adult cells are reprogrammed to be like embryonic stem cells so they can transform into any type of cell.

The first reports of the successful reprogramming of adult human cells back into so - called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which by all appearances looked and acted liked embryonic stem cells created a media stir.

Not exact matches

Two new papers have just been published documenting further advances with induced pluripotent stem cells --- stem cells that are «embryonic - like» but that are not derived from embryos.

For most in the scientific community, the debate was never truly about whether adult stem cells or embryonic stem cells would be the most useful therapeutically or whether we could obtain embryonic - like stem cells without destroying embryos.

Well it seems like Ivan can relax, Michael Peroski has just solved all of our problems: Proceeding from ideology - driven inquiry entails starting from an answer: «Research on human embryonic stem cell should be forbidden because embryos are equivalent to human lives» and working....

Example in point: Opposition to embryonic stem cell / human cloning research: It isn't anti science to oppose treating nascent human life like a corn crop or manufacturing embryos, anymore than it is anti science than the Animal Welfare Act the proscribes what can and can't be done in scientific research with some mammals.

(In many ways it is worse than when John Edwards said in 2004 that if people voted for John Kerry, people like Christopher Reeve would get out of their wheelchairs and walk from embryonic stem cell therapies.)

Passing through a stem cell stage resets the developmental clock to an embryonic - like state, wiping out the age - associated effects of the disorder.

To turn one cell into another you usually need to first rewind them into embryonic - like stem cells.

Embryonic - like stem cells have been isolated from breast milk in large numbers.

Stephen Minger, director of the Stem Cell Biology Laboratory at King's College London, UK, says he is «intrigued» by the claims but would like to see more proof of the cells» embryonic character.

«Perhaps there are some mammary gland stem cells that can be coaxed to have a slightly broader potential than normal, but I very much doubt that embryonic - like cells normally exist in the breast,» says Robin Lovell - Badge of the National Institute for Medical Research in London.

Stem cells from breast milk can grow into many other kinds of human tissue, raising hopes of an ethical source of embryonic - like stem cStem cells from breast milk can grow into many other kinds of human tissue, raising hopes of an ethical source of embryonic - like stem cstem cells

Embryonic - like stem cells have previously been discovered in amniotic fluid and in the umbilical cord, but this is the first time they have been discovered in an adult.