Sentences with phrase «other endoderm»
«Novocell is a leader in differentiation of stem cells to create functional islet cells of the pancreas, and this broad patent significantly enhances our proprietary position and further secures our investment in the development of a diabetes cell therapy and potentially other endoderm - derived cell products,» said Edward Baetge, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Novocell.
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San Diego, CA (March 31, 2009)-- Novocell, Inc., a stem cell engineering company, today announced that it has received U.S. Patent 7,510,876 with claims covering human definitive endoderm cells, an essential cell for generating not only pancreatic type cells, which Novocell is developing for use as a cell therapy for diabetes, but also other endoderm lineage - derived tissues and organs such as lungs, intestine, liver, thymus and thyroid.
Not exact matches
Two other members of this family, Ndr1 and Ndr2, are required to form the mesoderm and endoderm early in zebrafish development.
But we do know that, like other animals, the human embryo in its earliest stages consists of three main components known as germ layers: the ectoderm, the endoderm and the mesoderm.
On the other hand, cells of line 4.1 differentiated into endoderm lineages more easily than cells of line 11.1 (data not shown).
We show that the fraction of cells present within this state is influenced by factors that both promote and suppress primitive endoderm differentiation, but conditions that support ES cell self - renewal prevent their progression into differentiation and support an equilibrium between this state and at least one other that resembles the Nanog positive inner cell mass of the mammalian blastocysts.
On the other hand, ES cells and cells differentiating into endoderm and mesoderm lineages from ES cells express OCT - 4 in mice and humans [66], and SSEA1 expression is found in other type of cells including neural stem cells and mesenchymal stem cells [67], [68].