Sentences with phrase «other types of stem cell»

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

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.

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.»

«Now that we know a fetus can become tolerant to a foreign stem cell source, we can really think big and consider looking at how other types of stem cells might be used to treat everything from neurological disorders to muscular disorders before birth,» MacKenzie added.

Now those early results are pointing researchers toward other types of stem cells that may be better suited to help repair cardiac muscle.

In the Drosophila testis, however, the whole system has been laid out, and stem cells can be readily identified — a major hurdle for most other types of stem cells.

Other types of stem cells are capable of creating multiple different cell types, but not all the cell types in the body.

Not exact matches

Instead, after several days, researchers harvest embryonic stem cells, which theoretically can develop into any type of cell and, according to many researchers, may someday be used to treat neurodegenerative diseases or other conditions.

The researchers dialed the skin cells back, developmentally speaking, to produce induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-- a special type of cell that can both self - renew, making more iPSCs, and differentiate, specializing into almost any other cell type.

Neuronal stem cells are marked by their ability to differentiate into other types of cells.

Some of the researchers at the centre will study the differentiation of stem cells into other cell types, one group by using human embryonic stem cell biology and another by studying early embryo development.

Other adult stems cells exist — such as hematopoietic stem cells, which can generate all types of blood cell and mesenchymal stem cells, which can turn into bone, fat and cartilage cells.

Also, researchers could carefully select which blood types to culture with each batch of stem cells, creating stockpiles of needed blood products for people with extremely rare blood types whose blood cell makeup makes it challenging to find good blood matches for transfusions because they would reject most other types of blood.

The back - and - forth attachment and removal of methyl groups also fine - tunes gene expression in stem cells, which can mature, specialize and multiply to become muscle, bone, nerve, or other cell types.

They then tried to reprogram skin cells from the animals, turning them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), which are capable of forming other types of cell.

These so - called pluripotent stem cells can be derived from a variety of adult cells and be guided into almost any other tissue type.

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

Meanwhile, biologists elsewhere were whipping up other types of organoids, starting instead with adult stem cells.

Cancer stem cells are strongly associated with the growth and recurrence of all cancers and are especially difficult to eradicate with normal treatment, which also leads to tumours developing resistance to other types of therapy.

The stem cell model says that tumor growth is more hierarchical, mainly driven by a subset of cells that can make new copies of themselves and give rise to the other cell types the tumor contains.

«Because of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, we were able to work with other researchers to make patient cells into any type of neuron,» said Young - Pearse, whose lab spent two years fine - tuning protocols with collaborators to generate the neurons needed for her early onset Alzheimer's study.

«There have been previous reports of other labs deriving beta cell types from stem cells, no other group has produced mature beta cells as suitable for use in patients,» he said.

To create different cell types in the lab, stem cells must be coaxed down the road of determination — the branching paths that fetal cells normally travel to become neurons, skin cells, muscle cells, or any number of other cell types.

«Use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology» — which involves taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming them into embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease — «makes it possible to model dementias that affect people later in life,» says senior study author Catherine Verfaillie of KU Leuven.

«We don't yet know if this type of coordination and control works in stem cell niches of other tissue types,» says DiNardo.

Stem cells obtained from human embryos seem to offer the best chance of new therapies, because unlike other stem cells they have the ability to morph into almost any type of tisStem cells obtained from human embryos seem to offer the best chance of new therapies, because unlike other stem cells they have the ability to morph into almost any type of tisstem cells they have the ability to morph into almost any type of tissue.

In a matter of weeks, the single stem cell repopulated the mouse's blood and immune system but did not create other types of cells.

While stem cells — cells that have the potential to differentiate into other types of cells — exist in adult humans, the most useful stem cells are those found in embryos, which are pluripotent, capable of becoming nearly any cell in the body.

Induced pluripotent stem cells can be generated from various types of cells in the body, and they can in turn be coaxed to develop into nearly any other cell type.

The stem cells produced through this therapeutic cloning would, like other embryonic stem cells, be capable of developing into many cell types and serve as a repair system for whatever part of the body required replenishment at the time.

But many in the field will be waiting for the next steps: testing whether the resulting mouse pups are genetically normal, trying out the technique in other animals, and using other and less controversial types of cells — such as stem cells that can be extracted and cryopreserved from adult testicular tissue — as the starting point.

«But since that leads to increased cell division and NEUROG1 is used in other stem cells to make other types of neurons, scientists in other fields should be aware that when using this factor, they'll probably also increase cell proliferation,» Kwan said.

It's a mystery,» he said, suggesting that it could mean stem cells thought to be committed to a particular lineage may be capable of becoming other types of tissue entirely.

Sometimes referred to as the stem cells of the zebrafish eye, Müller glia are the cells from which all other types of retinal cells are regenerated in the fish.

When the researchers measured gene activity, they found that the iPS cells were more similar to the ES cells they descended from than to each other, suggesting that the source of the cells explains many of the disparities researchers had noted between the two stem cell types.

Haruko Obokata of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan, and colleagues at other Japanese institutions and at Harvard Medical School in Boston reported that simply subjecting blood cells from newborn mice to a moderately acidic environment for 25 minutes and then tweaking culture conditions could generate pluripotent stem cells capable of developing into nearly all of a body's cell types.

Although unequal division occurs among stem cells — allowing one daughter cell to remain a stem cell while the other matures into another cell type, such as a skin or muscle cell — the goal of a normal symmetric cell division is to generate identical daughter cells and increase cell number.

Other research in this area has required that cells of one type first be returned to a more generally undifferentiated stem cell state, which can introduce fresh problems.

Studying mouse embryonic stem cells, they removed Grb2, a protein essential to the ability of the stem cell to transform into other cell types, from the cells.

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have, for the first time, taken chimpanzee and bonobo skin cells and turned them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a type of cell that has the ability to form any other cell or tissue in the body.

Like other kinds of stem cells (which can develop into many other cell types), they can divide repeatedly.

By designing synthetic proteins that can only interact with a pre-determined partner, and introducing them into cells, the team revealed a key interaction that regulates the ability of embryonic stem cells to change into other cell types.

Praveen Arany at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda, Maryland, and his colleagues wondered if they could use lasers and stem cells to provide a longer - lasting solution, because lasers can make other tissue types regenerate.

In contrast with most other reviews, it covers all major corneal cell types in a comprehensive way, showing similarities and differences in the healing process and the usage of stem cells for therapy.

«Those fish sperm stem cells may be able to become other types of cells in addition to germ cells,» he says.

Cancer cells resemble stem cells not because they can turn into other cell types, but because in developmental terms, they seem to go in the opposite direction: they begin to run through multiple layers of stop signs and barricades and just keep on multiplying.

The researchers also have yet to determine the specific recipe of growth factors that would coax stem cells to create other types of sensory interneurons.

Studying a new type of pinhead - size, lab - grown brain made with technology first suggested by three high school students, Johns Hopkins researchers have confirmed a key way in which Zika virus causes microcephaly and other damage in fetal brains: by infecting specialized stem cells that build its outer layer, the cortex.

The findings suggested that different types of blood cells produce vastly different amounts of protein per hour, and stem cells in particular synthesize much less protein than any other blood - forming cells.