Sentences with phrase «modify human stem»

In the future, scientists may be able to modify human stem cell lines in the laboratory by using gene therapy or other techniques to overcome this immune rejection.

Church is already adapting MAGE for genetically modifying human stem cell lines.

Muscles from mice treated with modified human stem cells show human dystrophin - producing muscle fibers (yellow) integrated among mouse muscle fibers (red).

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The laboratory process, described in the journal Scientific Reports, entails genetically modifying a line of human embryonic stem cells to become fluorescent upon their differentiation to retinal ganglion cells, and then using that cell line for development of new differentiation methods and characterization of the resulting cells.

In a commentary accompanying the new study, Dolly cloner Ian Wilmut and his co-worker Jane Taylor of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland wrote that «a modified approach to direct reprogramming... is likely to be the ultimate method of choice for producing human stem cells.»

Beilhack and colleagues found that a slightly modified version of STAR2 has a similar effect on human T reg cells, suggesting that the approach could also prevent GvHD in leukemia and lymphoma patients after bone marrow or hematopoietic stem cell transplants.

While the human stem cells derived through conventional methods failed to integrate into the modified embryos, the human rsPSCs began to develop into early stage tissues.

Lentiviral - based gene therapy methods to modify human CD34 + hematopoietic stem cells have been investigated as a way of treating various hematological disorders including X-linked chronic granulomatous disease (X-CGD).

Kucherlapati: Without thinking about modifying the human genome line, would this technology have the ability to affect the health of humans by modifying the stem cells?

Not only could modifying the subject matter attract more diversity to STEM, it could also help ensure that future technologies are more empathetic to a wider range of human needs.

However welcome the recent announcement that a team of scientists based at Newcastle University, has grown a section of human liver using stem cells from umbilical cords, rather than from the more controversial source of embryonic stem cells, and whatever the eventual promise or potential of harvesting organs for transplantation from genetically modified pigs, the benefits of either of these two pioneering techniques to currently dying / suffering patients, remain both elusive and distant.