Sentences with phrase «particular type of stem cell»

A particular type of stem cell found in muscle can give rise to new muscle tissue, so a team led by geneticist Luis Garcia of Généthon, a nonprofit biotechnology firm in Évry, France, investigated whether these cells could be used to reverse the dystrophin problems.

Not exact matches

«We hope that these new insights will make it possible to modulate the differentiation of stem cells — causing them to generate cells of a particular type,» says Carell.

But getting pluripotent stem cells to differentiate into a particular type of cell that can function inside the body is not simple.

The company's goal is to create a comprehensive source of stem cells that could be of particular use for treating people of Middle Eastern descent, whose tissue types are often underrepresented in the public tissue banks such as those in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Adult stem cells: They have less flexibility and «stemness» to change into different cell types, but they can still produce new cells, specialized to become part of a particular organ or tissue, such as muscle cells or neural cells.

Cancer stem cells, a type of self - renewing cell found in tumors, are of particular interest because they are the main cell type responsible for tumor progression and for resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and therefore a major cause of tumor recurrence after treatment.

«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.

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.

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.

The things that we have demonstrated — such as the fact that the vertical nanowires can deliver any biological effector to any cell type in a spatially selected fashion — have drawn interest from many different people, and we have been working with stem cell institutes and others to demonstrate the unique utility of this particular platform.

Typically, this involves creating a «scaffold» of natural or synthetic materials, seeding it with human stem cells that can differentiate themselves into particular tissue types, and providing the cells with nutrients and a physical environment that encourages them to take on the three - dimensional structures and functions of a particular body part.

At the heart of Clevers» work were adult stem cells, a type of cell that can replenish itself while also maintaining the ability to change into the many types of mature cells that a particular tissue or organ requires.

Stem cells are cells found primarily in embryos, and they have not yet taken on the characteristics of any particular type of cell, such as bone, muscle tissue or brain matter.

«As we better understand the underlying genetic circuitry that orchestrates development of a particular kind of stem cell into a specialized cell type, we should be able to manipulate it for such purposes.»

«There is a lot of excitement in stem cell biology these days about the possibility of rationally and efficiently generating particular cell types from different stem cells for therapeutic purposes,» he said.

«Two decades of discoveries in the fields of stem cell biology, cortical brain development, and cell transplantation have revealed the potential for particular types of neurons to repair the nervous system, representing a possible breakthrough therapy for patients with devastating neurological diseases,» said Cory Nicholas, Co-Founder, VP of Research at Neurona.

To overcome these hurdles, Bhatia and her team reprogrammed human skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-- embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease.