To learn more, her group, including postdoctoral fellow Maria Fernanda Forni, who
studies skin stem cells, paired up with Jorge Shinohara in Sao Paulo's Fundamental Chemistry Department, who built a custom - made temperature sensor for mouse skin.
Not exact matches
«This new
study uncovers for the first time the dynamic of
stem cells during wound healing and identifies new molecular players associated with
skin regeneration.
«It was particularly exciting to observe that the repair of the
skin epidermis involves the activation of very different
stem cells that react the same way to the emergency situation of the wound and have the power to completely restore the damaged tissue», comments Mariaceleste Aragona, the first author of the
study.
Human epidermal equivalents representing different types of
skin could also be grown, depending on the source of the
stem cells used, and could thus be tailored to
study a range of
skin conditions and sensitivities in different populations.»
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.
In the present
study, her team took
skin cells from patients with lissencephaly and turned them into iPS cells, which they then cultivated under special conditions into neuronal
stem cells and neurons that are copies of those in the patients» brains.
Since the same
stem cells are responsible for helping heal the
skin after injury, the
study raises the possibility that Tregs may play a key role in wound repair as well.
«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.
The team is also applying the approaches outlined in this paper to cells in the intestine and
skin to
study basic ideas of
stem cell maintenance and differentiation to relate back to similar mechanisms in the heart.
Two approaches to fat grafting — injection of fat cells versus fat - derived
stem cells — have similar effects in reversing the cellular - level signs of aging
skin, reports a
study in the April issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
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.
In the new
study, the researchers cultured mouse
skin - cancer colonies on various 2 - D and 3 - D environments of different shapes and patterns to see if the tumor shape contributes to activation of cancer
stem cells, and to see where in the tumor the
stem cells appeared.
In a
study published December 22 in
Stem Cell Reports, researchers developed an alternative approach involving the direct conversion of adult
skin cells into functional testosterone - producing cells.
The
study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland used the induced pluripotent
stem cell technology, which enables the generation of pluripotent
stem cells from human
skin fibroblasts.
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.
Creating heart cells from induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPSCs) that are derived from a patient's
skin cells enables scientists to
study and test drugs on that patient's specific disease.
In this new
study, the scientists mimicked human tissue formation by starting with
stem cells genetically reprogrammed from adult
skin tissue to form small chambers with beating human heart cells.
To
study the underlying cause of bipolar disorder, Gage and his colleagues collected
skin cells from six bipolar patients, reprogrammed the cells to become
stem cells, and then coaxed the
stem cells to develop into neurons.
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological
Studies have, for the first time, taken chimpanzee and bonobo
skin cells and turned them into induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPSCs), a type of cell that has the ability to form any other cell or tissue in the body.
Skin cells from bonobos (pigmy chimps) were reprogrammed to pluripotent
stem cells, an advance that allows scientists to
study the differences between the neurons of humans and chimps.
He adds that the
stem cells used in the
study have advantages over reprogrammed
skin cells, including eliminating the tricky business of inducing the cells to become muscle cells, but he notes that both types of cells could pose risks because the virus used to modify them could cause cancer.
New
study shows that adult
skin cells made to differentiate like embryonic
stem cells may reverse neurological damage
The
study results, published in the journal Cell, revolve around iPSCs, which since their 2006 discovery have enabled researchers to coax mature (fully differentiated) bodily cells (e.g.
skin cells) to become like embryonic
stem cells.
Now, in a
study published in Nature, researchers led by Professor Cédric Blanpain at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Professor Ben Simons at the University of Cambridge, have demonstrated in mice how
skin stem and progenitor cells respond to the activation of an oncogene.
«From
skin to brain:
Stem cells without genetic modification:
Study yields neural crest cells from adult
skin cells, and could lead to new treatments for Parkinson's and other brain illnesses.»
Stem cells, derived from
skin cells donated by people with and without bipolar disorder, allow scientists to
study the disease at its most basic level.
Researchers
studying the heterogeneous nature of cancer
stem cell - containing
skin tumors may have discovered new therapeutic targets
In this new
study, the scientists mimicked human tissue formation by starting with
stem cells genetically reprogrammed from adult
skin tissue to small chambers with beating human heart cells.
Recently, his lab used induced pluripotent
stem (iPS) cells — adult cells made to act like embryonic
stem cells — made from
skin cells of patients carrying apoE4, or other mutations related to Alzheimer's, to
study their effects on the development, survival, and degeneration of human neurons.
Globs of human fat removed during liposuction conceal versatile cells that are more quickly and easily coaxed to become induced pluripotent
stem cells, or iPS cells, than are the
skin cells most often used by researchers, according to a new
study from Stanford's School of Medicine.
They conducted a
study in mice and found that the
stem cell that produces all the different cells of the
skin actually lives in hair follicles.
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.&ra
Stem Cell «Recently three different
studies were published demonstrating that mouse fibroblast (
skin) cells can be directly reprogrammed to behave like embryonic
stem cells.&ra
stem cells.»
There are
studies on embryonic
stem cells, which can make all the tissues of your body, and people over the past couple years have been able to take a set of genes and put them in and reprogram the
skin cells to think they're an embryonic cell and therefore being able to make all the tissues of your body.
These
studies reveal a crosstalk between the two conserved developmental pathways in human
skin, and highlight the role of the
skin microenvironment in driving the generation of
stem cells, and possibly tumor - initiating cells.
They will continue this work with cells from Lurie patients as part of the
study, and grow heart cells as well as neurons from
stem cells derived from
skin.
Gladstone scientists
study how human
skin cells can be reprogrammed into induced pluripotent
stem (iPS) cells, and they are working to refine the production of these cells.
In the Science
study, Ding's team used trial and error to find a combination of chemicals that could induce human
skin cells to turn into multipotent
stem cells, and then into cardiomyocytes.
In two
studies published in Science and Cell
Stem Cell, the team of scientists, who were led by Gladstone senior investigator Sheng Ding, PhD, and are part of the Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, used chemical cocktails to gradually coax skin cells to change into organ - specific stem cell - like cells and, ultimately, into heart or brain ce
Stem Cell, the team of scientists, who were led by Gladstone senior investigator Sheng Ding, PhD, and are part of the Roddenberry Center for
Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, used chemical cocktails to gradually coax skin cells to change into organ - specific stem cell - like cells and, ultimately, into heart or brain ce
Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, used chemical cocktails to gradually coax
skin cells to change into organ - specific
stem cell - like cells and, ultimately, into heart or brain ce
stem cell - like cells and, ultimately, into heart or brain cells.
The latest
study, published in Cell
Stem Cell, offers a third way to turn skin cells into stem cells by directly manipulating the cells» genome using CRISPR gene regulation techniq
Stem Cell, offers a third way to turn
skin cells into
stem cells by directly manipulating the cells» genome using CRISPR gene regulation techniq
stem cells by directly manipulating the cells» genome using CRISPR gene regulation techniques.
Scientists at Gladstone now create
stem cells from the
skin cells of patients with a specific disease, which helps them to
study the causes of disease and find novel treatments.
In the second
study, authored by Gladstone postdoctoral scholar Mingliang Zhang, PhD, and published in Cell
Stem Cell, the scientists created neural stem cells from mouse skin cells using a similar appro
Stem Cell, the scientists created neural
stem cells from mouse skin cells using a similar appro
stem cells from mouse
skin cells using a similar approach.
They had previously
studied the circadian clock in the basal state and then in
skin stem cells.
By
studying the
stem cells in two types of tissue, namely
skin, muscle, and in liver, in young (three months old) and aged (18 to 22 months old) mice every four hours, «we observed that the core components of the circadian clock had no changes in their rhythm with age».
To overcome these hurdles, Bhatia and her team reprogrammed human
skin cells into induced pluripotent
stem cells (iPSCs)-- embryonic - like
stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for
studying a particular disease.