Sentences with phrase «skin cells reprogrammed»

Skin cells reprogrammed to act like embryonic stem cells — a breakthrough first reported in human cells 2 weeks ago — are already showing promise as a therapeutic agent.

Work with skin cells reprogrammed to mimic embryos had suggested the mutation would be repaired in fewer than 30 percent of cells.

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The new research took adult cells (skin cells), exposed them to four genes, and the genes appear to have reprogrammed the cells to a pluripotent state.

«Altering Huntington's patients» skin cells into brain cells sheds light on disease: Reprogrammed brain cells exhibit «symptoms» of fatal disorder.»

In the direct reprogramming, the researchers exposed the adult skin cells to a specific mix of signaling molecules the scientists» past research had found would convert healthy skin cells directly into a type of brain cell called medium spiny neurons, without intermediate steps along the way.

To make the HSCs, the Harvard group used human skin cells to create induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), adult cells researchers genetically reprogram to an embryonic - stem - cell state, where they can grow into any kind of cell.

To solve these problems, Hingtgen's group wanted to see whether they could skip a step in the genetic reprogramming process, which first transforms adult skin cells into standard stem cells and then turns those into neural stem cells.

«In theory, we could model progression of the disease by reprogramming skin cells from patients at a range of ages, including before symptoms begin.

Mouse and human skin cells can be reprogrammed to hunt down tumors and deliver anticancer therapies.

To develop their «disease in a dish» model, the team took skin cells from patients with Allan - Herndon - Dudley syndrome and reprogrammed them into induced pluripotent stem cells, which then can be developed into any type of tissue in the body.

Reprogramming is a long process (about one to two weeks) and largely inefficient, with typically less than one percent of the primary skin or blood cells successfully completing the journey to becoming an iPSC.

Cellular reprogramming turns an adult cell, such as a skin cell, into an induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell.

In 2006, Japanese scientists figured out how to reprogram specialized cells, such as those in skin, so that they act like embryonic stem cells.

They reprogrammed the skin cells, rejuvenating them into an embryolike state (using the four - gene approach described in 2007).

Such a recollection can be an advantage if scientists are looking to turn a reprogrammed skin cell back into skin cells, he noted.

To create them, the skin cells need to be reprogrammed to an embryonic state by exposing them to extra amounts of four critical gene switches.

In addition to helping understand disease by providing more powerful study models, «what this technology would allow you to do is reprogram a skin cell, for example, from a Parkinson's patient... into a pluripotent cell and then in a petri dish redirect that cell into... a neuron» to treat that patient.

There are now other methods to make stem cells, but those made via SCNT have unique value because they are genetic copies of the living person who donated the skin cells (other methods either use foreign cells or involve genetic reprogramming).

They then tried to reprogram skin cells from the animals, turning them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), which are capable of forming other types of cell.

In new research, scientists reprogrammed skin cells from patients with rare blood disorders into iPSCs, highlighting the great promise of these cells in advancing understanding of those challenging diseases — and eventually in treating them.

This year they succeeded in generating mini-livers, or liver buds, from stem cells that were taken from human skin and reprogrammed to an embryonic state.

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.

These are cells taken from adult non-muscle tissues, such as skin or blood, and reprogrammed to revert to a primordial state.

In one promising approach, cellular reprogramming, stem cells can be generated by fusing adult skin cells with embryonic stem cells from existing cell lines.

The researchers also employed a cutting - edge technology developed by their collaborators at Columbia University to reprogram the child's skin cells into early progenitor cells, then differentiate those into lung cells, the front lines of influenza infections.

Zheng, together with Leah Boyer, then a researcher in Gage's lab and now director of Salk's Stem Cell Core, generated diseased neurons by taking skin cells from patients with Leigh syndrome, reprogramming them into stem cells in culture and then coaxing them to develop into brain cells in a dish.

The disease model, described in a new study by a UC San Francisco - led team, involves taking skin cells from patients with the bone disease, reprogramming them in a lab dish to their embryonic state, and deriving stem cells from them.

Doctors at Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital used her skin cells to grow iPS cells, which were reprogrammed into retinal cells and implanted in her eye.

The term «pluripotent» refers to the fact iPS cells can be «reprogrammed» to become any type of cell, from skin to liver to nerve cells.

Perhaps in the future it may be possible for doctors to apply flexible bandages to severely burnt skin to reprogram the cells to heal that injury with functional tissue instead of forming a scar.

Researchers might generate personalized brain organoids from the reprogrammed skin cells of individuals with, say, schizophrenia and test which medications work best for patients with particular genetic profiles of the illness.

Induced pluripotent stem cells: These genetically reprogrammed skin cells regain the «stemness» of embryonic stem cells.

By reprogramming skin cells into nerve cells, researchers at Karolinska Institutet are creating cell models of the human brain.

Two groups of researchers report today that washing human skin cells in similar cocktails of four genes enabled them to reprogram the cells to resemble those harvested from embryos.

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.

This time, instead of using skin cells, the team reprogrammed lymphocytes (immune cells) from six entirely new bipolar patients, some of whom are known lithium responders.

The reprogrammed skin cells that have led to this enthusiasm seem to have the same properties as the embryonic stem cells (ESCs) found in human embryos just a few days old.

Young - Pearse and colleagues believe that their strategy of using induced pluripotent stem cells to reprogram patient skin cells into neurons of interest could be used to predict which therapeutics will best help early onset Alzheimer's patients.

«Use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology» — which involves taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming them into embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease — «makes it possible to model dementias that affect people later in life,» says senior study author Catherine Verfaillie of KU Leuven.

In one study, geneticist Joseph Ecker at the Salk Institute in California took various stem cell lines reprogrammed from skin, fat, and other tissues and examined each line's genome for dna methylation, chemical marks that alter how genes are expressed.

Three separate groups reported in June that they had reprogrammed adult mouse skin cells into a form nearly indistinguishable from ESCs.

Similarly, the three research teams that last week reported turning mouse skin cells into embryolike cells say they will have to study embryonic cells to learn how to reprogram human cells in the same way and to understand their potential.

In 2006, Japanese biologist Shinya Yamanaka found a solution: He reprogrammed skin cells from a mouse, turning them back into embryo - like cells, with the potential to grow into any tissue, simply by adding four genes.

Pluripotent stem cells include embryonic stem cells, which are derived from early embryos, and induced pluripotent stem cells, which are made by reprogramming cells taken from adult tissues such as skin.

Under the direction of Senior Lecturer Yoshinori Yoshida, Funakoshi took induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells that were reprogrammed from skin cells and made them into heart cells.

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.

Instead the team is working with induced pluripotent stem cells, cells that have been reprogrammed to behave like embryonic stem cells, but can be made from a small sample of the intended recipient's own skin.

After collecting skin cells from people with and without schizophrenia, Gage and team genetically reprogrammed the cells to become pluripotent stem cells, with the youthful ability to give rise to any of the more than 200 cell types in the body.