Sentences with phrase «transform into brain cells»

Scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have uncovered new insights into how stem cells transform into brain cells that control leg movements.

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Crayfish have a «nursery» in their heads where blood cells transform into neurons — the process may one day help us to regenerate our own brain cells

The team at the University's Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine were surprised to find the molecules can also boost direct conversions from one type of mature cell to another — including transforming skin cells into brain cells.

Scores of laboratories at universities and in private industry are uncovering how to use these cells, which transform into neurons, astrocytes (the cells that regulate transmission of electrical impulses in the brain) and oligodendrocytes (which insulate nerve fibers with a fatty coating).

Nevertheless,» [the] study is very important because it demonstrates for the first time that we can use gene therapy to transform cells in the brain into ones that will secrete GDNF,» says Jeffrey Kordower, a professor of neurological sciences at Rush Presbyterian Medical Center in Chicago.

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.

Scientists are hopeful that ultimately these cells could be transformed in the laboratory to yield specific cell types needed for a particular treatment, or to cross the «blood - brain barrier» by expressing specific therapeutic agents that are released directly into the brain.

The two groups took skin cells from patients and transformed them into the type of brain cells that are affected by Alzheimer's.

These rare, damage - repairing cells are found in many organs (including the brain), but the cells can transform into only a limited range of cell types.

They then transformed these into dopamine - producing brain cells.

With a bit of persuasion they can be transformed into pluripotent stem cells capable of developing into all manner of tissues, from bone to blood to brain.

Their findings suggest that even the earliest animals had the makings of both vertebrate and invertebrate visual systems, and that some of the photoreceptor cells in the invertebrate brain were transformed through a series of steps into vertebrate eyes.

Indeed, recent data demonstrate that when microglial cells are removed from the brain and cultured in vitro, they rapidly transform into something else.

Using unique drug cocktails, stem cell scientist Sheng Ding, PhD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes, can transform fibroblasts (skin cells) into fully functional brain, heart, liver, and insulin - producing pancreas cells.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — In a major breakthrough, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes transformed skin cells into heart cells and brain cells using a combination of chemicals.

In a major breakthrough, Gladstone scientists transformed skin cells into heart cells and brain cells using a combination of chemicals and without adding external genes to the cells.

In a major breakthrough, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes transformed skin cells into heart cells and brain cells using a combination of chemicals.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — June 7, 2012 — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have for the first time transformed skin cells — with a single genetic factor — into cells that develop on their own into an interconnected, functional network of brain cells.

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.

The team managed to transform astrocytes (a type of supporting cells in the brain) into neurons directly within the brain of rats.

They include the first phase of our skin for transforming sunlight into vitamin D3, building cell walls throughout our bodies, and comprising most of our brains» structure.