The team set up a microscope and video camera over several culture dishes, each containing a single neural
progenitor cell taken from a mouse embryo 10 days after fertilization.
Scientists have successfully used gene editing to repair 20 to 40 percent of stem and
progenitor cells taken from the peripheral blood of patients with sickle cell disease, according to Rice... Read more
Scientists have successfully used gene editing to repair 20 to 40 percent of stem and
progenitor cells taken from the peripheral blood of patients with sickle cell disease, according to Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao.
Seldon's San Francisco - based company, Finless Foods, is using cellular agriculture to grow fish in a lab, using
progenitor cells taken from a small piece of fish meat.
Not exact matches
These
progenitor cells, he hypothesized, might be undifferentiated enough to
take cues from surrounding
cells in the spinal cord so that they would develop properly.
One possibility would be to
take stem
cells from balding men, multiply these into
progenitor cells, and then return them to the scalp.
When Kirkland
took progenitor fat
cells from human fats — subcutaneous, omental, and mesenteric — and cultured them, they retained their distinctive characteristics even after 40 population doublings.
To test this, the team
took mouse hematopoetic
progenitor cells —
cells that give rise to white blood
cells — and modified them to overexpress a protein called Id3.
There have, however, been some studies with encouraging results; for example, Chinese scientists
took human endothelial
progenitor cells exposed to resveratrol, and showed that telomerase activity increased.