Scientists have been able to successfully
transform human embryonic stem cells into pre-pancreatic cellsANCHOR.
Not exact matches
The team used
human embryonic stem cells — which can
transform into any cell of the body — and cultured them in a mixture of chemicals to grow
human brain cells.
Last month, Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University showed he could
transform adult skin cells into cells akin to
human embryonic stem cells.
The process
transforms the adult cells into pluripotent
stem cells, which seem to share the key characteristics of
embryonic stem cells but do not require the creation, use, or destruction of a
human embryo.
Dr. Yamanaka's discovery — how to
transform ordinary adult skin cells into
stem cells that, like
embryonic stem cells, can develop into any cell in the
human body.
Unlike
embryonic stem cells, which are developmental blank slates that can generate virtually all types of cells found in adult
humans, adult
stem cells are thought to possess limited potential to
transform into cells found in their tissues of origin.
After completing his postdoctoral training at Gladstone, Dr. Yamanaka discovered an innovative technology that
transforms ordinary adult skin cells into
stem cells that, like
embryonic stem cells, can develop into virtually any cell type in the
human body.
This award, named after the Chapter's co-founder Richard Essey and his wife Sheila, this year recognizes the far - reaching,
human - health impact of Dr. Yamanaka's Nobel Prize winning discovery of a way to
transform adult skin cells into cells that act like
embryonic stem cells.
The first patients to receive
human embryonic stem cell transplants say their lives have been
transformed by the experimental procedure
Shinya Yamanaka MD, PhD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of how to
transform ordinary adult skin cells into cells that, like
embryonic stem cells, are capable of developing into any cell in the
human body.