Sentences with phrase «reprogrammed skin fibroblasts»

• In March, a University of Wisconsin team reprogrammed skin fibroblasts into embryonic stem cells without incorporating the viral or other foreign DNA that can lead to complications like cancer.

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Using patient's own tissue and specific combination of reprogramming factors, skin fibroblasts are successfully converted to cell type that... Continue reading Breakthrough Device Looks to Heal Organs

The study team removed fibroblasts (skin cells) from DBA patients, and in cell cultures, using proteins called transcription factors, reprogrammed the cells into iPSCs.

The research team took skin fibroblast tissue from adult mole - rats and reprogrammed the cells to revert to pluripotent stem cells.

Skin - producing cells called fibroblasts from the tip of an adult mouse's tail have been reprogrammed to make eggs, Japanese researchers report online October 17 in Nature.

For the new study, the team used a cell - reprogramming technique (similar to those used to reprogram skin cells into stem cells) to generate human DRG - type sensory neurons from ordinary skin cells called fibroblasts.

The elongated fibroblasts reprogrammed to become more T - cell - like in shape and hundreds of T - cell genes were also expressed in these skin cells.

Developed a novel - reprogramming paradigm for generating heart, brain and pancreatic cells directly from skin fibroblasts.

Similarly, biopsies are obtained from many subjects and skin cells (fibroblasts) are isolated from these specimens, dedifferentiated to iPS lines, and reprogrammed and studied as neural and glial lines in culture.

Cell Stem Cell «Recently three different studies were published demonstrating that mouse fibroblast (skin) cells can be directly reprogrammed to behave like embryonic stem cells.»

While scientists have successfully reprogrammed different types of mouse cells (fibroblasts, liver and intestinal cells), skin fibroblasts were the only human cell type they had ever tried their hands on.