«They drive the laboratory procedure by which we can reverse the progression during development from stem cell to differentiated cell and use differentiated cells from our skin to
make stem cells.»
In 2006, Gladstone Senior Investigator Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, discovered he could
make stem cells — dubbed induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-- by treating ordinary skin cells with four key proteins.
Easy - to -
make stem cells could be used to replace cells in diseased organs.
However, her research group has not yet identified how to
make stem cells yield entirely dI1 or entirely dI3 cells — perhaps because another signaling pathway is involved, she said.
He used adult cells — first in mice, although the technique is now feasible in human cells — to
make stem cells that can form a wide range of other cells, essentially turning their cellular clocks back to infancy so they could mature into different adults.
Then scientists figured out a way to
make these stem cells without the cancer gene.
They then added signalling molecules to
make the stem cells develop into motor neurons, the cells that carry signals to and from the spinal cord to the rest of the body.
In the paper that is now published,
they make the stem cells in the bone marrow to produce more telomerase, thus enabling them to repair their excessively shortened telomeres.
The technique allows scientists to
make stem cells from, for instance, a patient's skin cells.
There are now other methods to
make stem cells, but those made via SCNT have unique value because they are genetic copies of the living person who donated the skin cells (other methods either use foreign cells or involve genetic reprogramming).
She «is willing to retract a paper concluding that so - called STAP stem cells can form a wide variety of tissues, but does not intend to retract the paper describing how to
make those stem cells.»
To
make stem cells the basis for safe medical treatments, however, the field would need the ability to tightly control stem cell pluripotency, the ability to become many cell types, and self - renewal or immortality, the ability to keep dividing and multiplying over time in constant turnover.
A route used by tumor cells to spread could be exploited to
make stem cells for regenerative medicine and cancer therapies
Mission is to
make stem cell treatments accessible and affordable to as many people as possible
A new law passed in November 2003
made stem cell research possible in Spain.
Woo Suk Hwang, the veterinarian who made headlines when he cloned human stem cells last year, announced in May that he and his colleagues had
made stem cells tailored for different patients.
A TECHNIQUE for
making stem cells from adult skin cells without tinkering with their DNA could herald a breakthrough in the quest for stem - cell therapies that do not rely on embryo - derived cells.
Many researchers pinned blame on journalists with «5 minute attention spans», saying they had overhyped the field,
making stem cells seem like a cure - all.
Because HIV uses CD4 to infect cells, the researchers used a CAR molecule that hijacks the essential interaction between HIV and the cell surface molecule CD4 to
make stem cell - derived T - cells target infected cells.
«Given the serious threat of graft - versus - host disease, new approaches to
make stem cell transplants safer for patients remain a critical unmet need,» said Dr. Leslie Kean, the trial's principal investigator and associate director of the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children's.
Haruko Obokata explained her surprisingly simple method for
making stem cells to a packed press conference in January.
«From a bioprocessing standpoint, a lot of the cost involved in
making stem cell products is related to the cost of the molecules that must be added to make the stem cells differentiate.»
Called STAP cells, the new stem cells can change into more types of cells than other lab -
made stem cells.
Dr. Melton's lab has been working on getting «a molecular biography,» he said, of all the genetic steps required to
make a stem cell a beta cell.
Doctors can treat a patient by first getting rid of the faulty blood -
making stem cells and replacing them with new ones.
Normally, the bone marrow
makes stem cells (immature cells) that become three types of mature blood cells:
This ability
makes stem cell - driven research a good complement to studies of postmortem brains.
Specifically, application of a prefabricated cardiac tissue patch to prevent dilation and to improve pumping efficiency of the infarcted heart offers a promising strategy for
making stem cell therapy a clinical reality.
Tweeting and other forms of social media - based outreach and engagement can be effective tools to help fulfil individual and institutional obligations to
make stem cell science broadly and well understood
As the world's first global stem cell healthcare plan, we are on a mission to
make stem cell treatment accessible and affordable.
Not exact matches
Yes, because the burger is
made from
stem cells.
If
stem cells could be cultivated into heart muscle, he thought, why couldn't they be manipulated into
making a drumstick or a porterhouse?
Over the past few decades, researchers have
made strides to understand more about
stem cells and regeneration.
Making personalized, or «autologous»
stem -
cell treatments, can
make the process go a lot faster, since a person's
cells don't need to be shipped out, reprogrammed, then reinserted into the body.
In London in 2013, a team from Maastricht University demonstrated a burger they
made from cow
stem cells, which chef Richard McGeown then cooked.
«What
made sense from an R&D perspective, in terms of our understanding of mouse
stem cells,
made total sense from a product perspective if you realize our customers are cats,» Bethencourt says.
The Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine (OIRM) is part of a community of researchers and organizations that are
making world - leading scientific discoveries in
stem cell and regenerative medicine.
The Smart Contracts will use the blockchain technology through Eternal Trusts when the scientists working with the company
make relevant developments in cloning, storing and utilizing
stem cells as required by the customer.
Whether it is changing text books to teach religion as a «science,»
making laws that prohibit
stem -
cell research which would without question help those in need, to stopping of any kind of gay rights, trying to put religion (christianity) into schools, a woman's right to choose, etc, etc...
for
stem cell research, there are tons of investors, it's just that the drug companies stand to lose millions and they have deeper pockets so they can bribe who they want to
make sure it stays illegal.
You said, «Secondly, how do you know that god isn't
making all these fetus's with the express intetion of giving their
stem cells for the good of humanity?»
And for
stem cell research, there are tons of investors, it's just that the drug companies stand to lose millions and they have deeper pockets so they can bribe who they want to
make sure it stays illegal.
DOMA, Ban on
stem cell research, oh wait, those were
made because of christian's forcing it on me.
Scientists looking for new methods to
make human tissue have successfully used cloning technology to create embryonic
stem cells from skin
cells.
And we can forget opennes on abortion,
stem cell research and let people
make their own decisions as to how to die.
Attempts have been
made to bridge this divide by proposing alternative sources of embryonic
stem cells for research and therapeutic purposes.
Proponents of human cloning assert that this is the only method of producing pluripotent
stem cells with the same genetic
make - up as adult patients.
On the other hand, I find I can not
make any argument that research on
stem cells garnered from spontaneously aborted fetuses is intrinsically wrong.
In «
Stem Cells: A Political History» (November 2008), Joseph Bottum and Ryan T. Anderson make a plausible sounding case that the errors manifest in politicizing the science of embryonic stem - cell research will cause people to be more prudent in the future about mixing science with politics in gene
Stem Cells: A Political History» (November 2008), Joseph Bottum and Ryan T. Anderson
make a plausible sounding case that the errors manifest in politicizing the science of embryonic
stem - cell research will cause people to be more prudent in the future about mixing science with politics in gene
stem -
cell research will cause people to be more prudent in the future about mixing science with politics in general.
We referred to the news that these
cells, called induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPSCs), could be
made from human skin....