Sentences with phrase «many types of stem cells»

Skeptic Al, stem cell research is done very ethically and the name includes all types of stem cells, not just ones from umbilical cords.

However, embryonic stem cells remain the «gold standard,» and studies of all types of stem cells should continue in parallel for the foreseeable future.»

It's blood in a newborn baby's umbilical cord that's rich in a type of stem cell called hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs).

«We have found a unique group of cells that bring together the essential qualities of both types of stem cells for the first time,» says Colin McGuckin of Kingston University in Surrey, UK, who co-led the team with colleague Nico Forraz.

This type of stem cell, called an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell, is found in the brain and spinal cord.

«Maybe the invention of this new type of stem cell was important in driving brain evolution,» says Mueller.

It was thought that different layers of neurons are generated in successive waves by a single type of stem cell.

«All of them are interesting; all of them are important,» Collins said about the three types of stem cells.

ERRORS have occurred in a type of stem cell that could be used instead of embryonic stem cells — and in tissues made from them.

The first hESC was isolated in 1998, and researchers are still working to find the strengths and nuances of each type of stem cell.

The science is still too new to know for sure which types of stem cells will be best suited to which kinds of research and treatments.

«I think it's a mistake to cast the different types of stem cells as competing priorities,» George Daley, associate director of the Stem Cell Program at Children's Hospital Boston, said at the hearing.

Two types of stem cells were used to produce the mini-brains: embryonic cells and adult cells that had been reprogrammed to a starter state.

The Karlssons were referred to the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, where physicians proposed a radical strategy: Harvest a specific type of stem cell from the liver of an aborted fetus and infuse it through the umbilical vein into the fetus that Madeleine was carrying.

By tinkering with the medium in which cells are grown, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies created a type of stem cell with a survival rate of 30 to 40 percent, vs. 1 percent.

The group is also testing four other types of stem cells.

The team used a type of stem cell called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs.

They observed two types of stem cells — ASCL - 2 positive and BMI - 1 positive — in the pig colon, similar to the human system.

One type of stem cell can produce multiple types of nerve cells at different stages of the brain's development.

All formed the same types of stem cells, which give rise to «progenitor» cells that, in turn, divide into neurons and eventually organize themselves in six layers of brain tissue.

The next steps for Zhang and his team is to focus mostly on using the agent on different types of stem cells and to test them in vivo.

Recent studies highlighted significant differences between these two types of stem cells, although only a limited number of cell lines of different origins were analyzed.

Scientists distinguish several types of stem cells.

This was the first time a type of stem cell called iPSCs — which possess the ability to change into any cell type in the body — was used in a procedure like this.

They also believe that SIRT1 might be important to maintaining the health of other types of stem cells in the body, which may be linked to overall aging.

hESC researchers George Daley of Children's Hospital Boston and Sean Morrison of the University of Michigan told the panel why research on other types of stem cells, such as adult stem cells and so - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), can't substitute for work on embryonic cells.

Pluripotent cells are a powerful type of stem cell that can become any cell type in the body.

But many types of stem cells also have a unique ability to seek out cancer cells, making them potential agents of cell death as well.

A French high court advised lifting that country's ban on human embryo research, for example, and a U.S. presidential advisory panel recommended that public funds be available for all types of stem cell research.

Different types of stem cells, he says, appear to have diverse ways of regulating proliferation and differentiation.

The gene usually helps ensure a type of stem cell matures properly and later dies.

A particular type of stem cell found in muscle can give rise to new muscle tissue, so a team led by geneticist Luis Garcia of Généthon, a nonprofit biotechnology firm in Évry, France, investigated whether these cells could be used to reverse the dystrophin problems.

In the original agreement, WARF gave Geron exclusive rights to develop diagnostic and treatment products in six types of stem cell - derived cell lines: pancreatic, heart muscle, nerve, blood, bone, and liver.

Gladstone scientists are the first to produce a type of stem cell — derived neuron that could potentially help restore movement

Neural crest cells are a type of stem cell; during vertebrate embryonic development, they eventually differentiate into specialized cells such as those that make facial skeleton cells or those that create pigment cells.

Then on March 9, 2009, President Obama signed an executive order freeing federal funds for work on any type of stem cell, including cells derived from unused embryos at in vitro fertilization clinics.

There is also a different type of stem cell that can be found in adults, and obtained without any harm or discomfort to the donor.

Indeed, in the mutant ferrets, researchers traced the cerebral cortex deficits to a type of stem cell called outer radial glial cells (ORGs).

Salk Institute scientists discover new type of stem cell that could potentially generate mature, functional tissues

In medicine, pluripotent is an adjective used to describe a type of stem cell that can mature into any other type of cell in the body.

That's because this type of stem cell is capable of becoming teratomas — tumors — when transplanted.

Obama's policy is bad science because embryo destruction is no longer necessary for the types of stem cells doctors seek.

The body needs many different types of stem cells to replace sick, aging or dying cells in its many different tissues.

\ n \ n Unfortunately, the general public seems to be unaware of certain basic facts regarding stem cell research and the media contributes to this by frequently reporting on «stem cell» research and not being more specific as to the type of stem cell research that is producing results.

We have specifically studied the potential of endothelial differentiation of MSC and the impact of a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (Imatinib mesylate) on this type of stem cells.

ViaCyte is aiming to eliminate rigorous insulin treatment and glucose testing by engineering a type of stem cell that produces insulin and other hormones that regulate sugar levels.

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.

He added: «Truly naive human ES cell lines would not only help answer fundamental questions about how we are made, and be useful for drug screening and tissue therapy, but they would also provide a benchmark against which other types of stem cells could be measured in terms of their effectiveness in stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine.»

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time shown that it is possible to derive from a human embryo so - called «naïve» pluripotent stem cells — one of the most flexible types of stem cell, which can develop into all human tissue other than the placenta.

However, the ways in which the different types of stem cells came to be accepted into the stem cell family is itself an interesting story, and one that can help paint a useful bigger picture, and that is why this story will be the focus for this blog post to celebrate International Stem Cell Awareness Day.