Sentences with phrase «turn ordinary cells»

Greely is focused on a different technology that has gotten much less attention: In a startling bit of biological alchemy, scientists have shown that in mice, they can turn ordinary cells into sperm and eggs.

Other ways exist to turn ordinary cells into stem cells.

Not exact matches

The idea fell out of favour following the scandal of 2005, and after the development of a way to turn ordinary skin cells into so - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), which behave rather like hESCs.

But even ordinary events such as a power outage could cripple the cell phone infrastructure, turning our primary emergency contact devices into glowing paperweights.

Although it still doesn't explain how infants sometimes develop dengue hemorrhagic fever the first time they're infected, he says, it «underscores that T cells could be just as important as antibodies» when ordinary cases of dengue fever turn ugly.

They have found a way to turn ordinary skin cells into a type of fat that burns rather than stores calories.

Two teams independently discover a way to turn ordinary human skins cells into stem cells with the same characteristics as those derived from human embryos, a breakthrough that could open the door for advanced medical therapies.

Two teams of scientists have independently discovered a way to turn ordinary human skin cells into stem cells with the same characteristics as those derived from human embryos, a breakthrough that could open the door for advanced medical therapies.

Ten years ago, Shinya Yamanaka revolutionized biological research with his discovery of how to turn ordinary skin cells into stem cells with just four key genes.