Greely is focused on a different technology that has gotten much less attention: In a startling bit of biological alchemy, scientists have shown that in mice, they can turn
ordinary cells into sperm and eggs.
In all, 812 labs in dozens of countries have requested the materials needed to reprogram
ordinary cells into iPS cells, said Addgene, a Massachusetts - based repository for research supplies.
Other ways exist to turn
ordinary cells into stem cells.
Not exact matches
The idea fell out of favour following the scandal of 2005, and after the development of a way to turn
ordinary skin
cells into so - called induced pluripotent stem
cells (iPS
cells), which behave rather like hESCs.
But even
ordinary events such as a power outage could cripple the
cell phone infrastructure, turning our primary emergency contact devices
into glowing paperweights.
What's more, when
ordinary colon cancer
cells were implanted near connective tissue in other mice, they transformed
into cancer stem
cells (Nature
Cell Biology, DOI: 10.1038 / ncb2048).
The paper's lead author — Marcus Yip, who completed his PhD at MIT last fall — and his colleagues Rui Jin and Nathan Ickes, both in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will also exhibit a prototype charger that plugs
into an
ordinary cell phone and can recharge the signal - processing chip in roughly two minutes.
To work his magic, Brenner takes
ordinary T
cells and tweaks them
into cancer killers extraordinaire.
Instead, following exposure to chemotherapy, GSTO1 binds to a protein called the ryanodine receptor 1, or RYR1, that triggers the release of calcium, which causes a chain reaction that transforms
ordinary breast cancer
cells into cancer stem
cells.
For the new study, the team used a
cell - reprogramming technique (similar to those used to reprogram skin
cells into stem
cells) to generate human DRG - type sensory neurons from
ordinary skin
cells called fibroblasts.
They have found a way to turn
ordinary skin
cells into a type of fat that burns rather than stores calories.
When a subject — a Franciscan nun, in one case — feels her
ordinary self «dissolving
into Christ consciousness,» as she describes it, a radioactive fluid is injected
into her body through an intravenous tube; the fluid travels to her brain and becomes trapped in nerve
cells there.
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.
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.
Just three years since a Japanese researcher first reprogrammed
ordinary skin
cells into stem
cells without the use of embryos, scientists at a Massachusetts biotech company have repeated the feat, only this time with a new method that creates the first stem
cells safe enough for -LSB-...]
Two teams independently discover a way to turn
ordinary human skins
cells into stem
cells with the same characteristics as those derived from human embryos, a breakthrough that could open the door for advanced medical therapies.
Two teams of scientists have independently discovered a way to turn
ordinary human skin
cells into stem
cells with the same characteristics as those derived from human embryos, a breakthrough that could open the door for advanced medical therapies.
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.
Ten years ago, Shinya Yamanaka revolutionized biological research with his discovery of how to turn
ordinary skin
cells into stem
cells with just four key genes.
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