In 2007, scientists demonstrated that they could
transform human skin cells into iPS cells, bypassing the destruction of embryos.
A new cellular reprogramming method has been revealed that
transforms human skin cells into liver cells that are virtually indistinguishable from the cells that make up native liver tissue.
Writing in the latest issue of the journal Nature, researchers in the laboratories of Gladstone Senior Investigator Sheng Ding, PhD, and UCSF Associate Professor Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD, reveal a new cellular reprogramming method that
transforms human skin cells into liver cells that are virtually indistinguishable from the cells that make up native liver tissue.
Not exact matches
Last month, Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University showed he could
transform adult
skin cells into
cells akin to
human embryonic stem
cells.
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Human skin cells transformed directly into motor neurons.»
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.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have
transformed cells from
human skin into
cells that produce insulin, the hormone used to treat diabetes.
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.
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.
In a paper being published online today in the scientific journal
Cell Stem
Cell, Sheng Ding, PhD, reveals efficient and robust methods for
transforming adult
skin cells into neurons that are capable of transmitting brain signals, marking one of the first documented experiments for
transforming an adult
human's
skin cells into functioning brain
cells.