TOKYO — A Japanese group has generated functional human livers by creating liver
precursor cells in the laboratory and then transplanting them into mice to complete the developmental process.
Not exact matches
«We provide a proof - of - principle for how to make and maintain unlimited numbers of
precursor kidney
cells,» says Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, professor
in Salk's Gene Expression
Laboratory.
By carefully guiding the
cells» choices at each fork
in the road, Loh and Chen were able to generate bone
cell precursors that formed human bone when transplanted into
laboratory mice and beating heart muscle
cells, as well as 10 other mesodermal - derived
cell lineages.
In his
laboratory mice, Dr. Ding has now used chemical reprogramming to turn fibroblasts into neural «
precursor»
cells with the potential to become new oligodendrocytes.
New SOX chondrogenic trio projects
in the
laboratory are addressing the roles of the proteins
in chondrogenic
precursor cells and
in adult articular chondrocytes.