Sentences with phrase «reprogram blood stem»
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Genetically reprogramming late - stage human cancer cells to a stem - cell state enabled them to force the reprogrammed cells to progress to an early cancerous state, revealing secreted blood biomarkers of early - stage disease along the way.
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The 2012 platform also repeats previous calls for expanding federal funding «for the stem - cell research that now offers the greatest hope for many afflictions — with adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, and cells reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells — without the destruction of embryonic human life.»
IPSC's are derived from the donated skin or blood cells of adults and, with the reactivation of four genes, are reprogrammed back to an embryonic stem cell - like state.
To solve that problem, the researchers started with patients» blood cells and reprogrammed them into so - called induced pluripotent stem cells, which can make any other cell in the body and grow indefinitely in the laboratory.
Cells from the blood or skin of participating individuals will be harvested and reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem cells.
Cedars - Sinai scientists can harvest cells from the blood or skin of an individual and reprogram them into induced pluripotent stem cells, which can be made into any organ cell (such as those from the lung, liver or intestine), each bearing the unique genetic fingerprint and characteristics of the person.