Sentences with phrase «resemble embryonic cells»
Like a Texan who keeps his drawl after moving to California, adult cells reprogrammed to resemble embryonic cells retain some signatures of the tissue from which they came.
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By analysing the early steps that precede tumor formation, Alexandra Van Keymeulen and colleagues found that expression of oncogenic Pik3ca reactivates a multilineage differentiation program in adult stem cells that resembles to an immature embryonic state.
Other researchers grew organoids from induced pluripotent stem cells, which resemble embryonic stem cells but are grown from adult cells.
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to reprogram mouse embryonic stem cells so that they exhibit developmental characteristics resembling those of fertilized eggs, or zygotes.
Mouse embryonic stem cells were turned into something resembling spermatids, the round cells that mature into sperm, by Jiahao Sha of Nanjing Medical University in China and his team.
Both teams successfully used these to reprogramme skin cells in a lab dish into cells resembling embryonic stem cells, which have the ability to turn into any tissue of the human body.
The research used skin samples from five men to create what are known as induced pluripotent stem cells, which closely resemble embryonic stem cells in their ability to become nearly any tissue in the body.
To make an organoid, cells are carefully coaxed to go through a process that resembles embryonic development.
In this respect, EC cells from teratocarcinomas resemble embryonic stem (ES) cells from normal animals, which scientists knew existed, but could not isolate.