Sentences with phrase «ordinary skin cells»

They have found a way to turn ordinary skin cells into a type of fat that burns rather than stores calories.

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-...]

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.

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.

Scientists will be able to create an entire embryo using ordinary skin cells or other adult cells, without ever using gametes harvested from a person.

He argued for following a new approach that came to light in November when scientists in Wisconsin and Japan reported they had reprogrammed genes in ordinary skin cells to create the equivalent of embryonic 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.

A fresh wave of research involves reprogramming ordinary skin cells into those found in the brain

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.

Their side of the debate got a boost last year when scientists in Wisconsin and Japan reported they had genetically reprogrammed ordinary skin cells to create the apparent equivalent of embryonic stem cells.