Sentences with phrase «pluripotent stem cells in the lab»

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Thanks to crucial contributions from three young lab members, he said, his team succeeded in converting mature skin cells into pluripotent stem cells.

O'Shea, a professor in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology and director of the U-M Pluripotent Stem Cell Research Lab, and McInnis, the Upjohn Woodworth Professor of Bipolar Disorder and Depression in the Department of Psychiatry, are co-senior authors of the new paper.

Some basic research findings are being translated into new treatments, and with the discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells in 2006, the field has seen a step - change in biological understanding that will affect the way new drugs are identified and tested and, potentially, the way cells can be generated in the lab.

Scientists in the lab have successfully generated neural stem cells (NCS) from human embryonic stem cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells (these are stem cells that have been reprogrammed from adult cells).

Embryonic stem cells — the subject of so much controversy (witness the new ruling blocking their use)-- were first cultured in the lab a little more than a decade ago; in 2006, there was another breakthrough when adult cells were coaxed into becoming induced pluripotent stem cells.

Some researchers are using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — tissue - specific cells (usually skin cells, but sometimes other tissue cells) that are reprogrammed in the lab to behave like embryonic stem cells — to grow rods and cones or RPE cells.

In the lab, she coaxed skin cells into becoming induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells.

There he worked in the Kaplan lab, originally with the Neural Group working to create a scaffold for a model of a three - dimensional interconnected neuronal network grown from human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital have, for the first time, generated blood - forming stem cells in the lab using pluripotent stem cells, which can make virtually every cell type in the body.

Neural stem cells are found in adult or fetal brain and spinal cord or derived from embryonic stem cells, which have the capacity to become any cell type in the body, or induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, tissue - specific cells that are reprogrammed in the lab to behave like embryonic stem cells.

In addition, three California - based ALS research labs have joined forces to form the Neuro Collaborative, which will create induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell lines from ALS patients that can be used to screen for new drugs and will be shared with the other groups.