Sentences with phrase «turning brain stem cells»

In «Diabetic rats cured with their own stem cells ``, we report how researchers cured diabetic rats by turning brain stem cells extracted through the nose into insulin - producing cells in the pancreas.

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The researchers then used genetic techniques to find out what would happen when NAD manufacturing is turned off in the adult neural stem cells of the mouse brain.

If you put embryonic stem cells on a substrate like Jell - O — mechanically similar to brain tissue — they turn into neurons.

Those issues emerged 17 years ago, when a Stanford colleague of Greely's proposed implanting human stem cells into mouse brains to see what would happen when the former turned into neurons; the experiment has not yet happened.

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a method to efficiently turn human stem cells into retinal ganglion cells, the type of nerve cells located within the retina that transmit visual signals from the eye to the brain.

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.

On the other hand, the problem is, you know, with embryonic stem cells, they haven't been able to get stem cell lines from livestock animals that can proliferate in that way, without just sort of veering up in their own direction and turning into, instead of muscle, turning into brain tissue or bone tissue or something else.

All formed the same types of stem cells, which give rise to «progenitor» cells that, in turn, divide into neurons and eventually organize themselves in six layers of brain tissue.

From there, researchers can prompt the stem cells to turn into brain cells for further study.

The scientists collected skin cells from 19 people, aged from birth to 89, and prompted them to turn into brain cells using both the induced pluripotent stem cell technique and the direct conversion approach.

Most of these trials involve stem cell - derived neural progenitor cells, which can turn into several different types of brain or spinal cord cells, or oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, which create the myelin sheaths that insulate and protect nerve cells.

McKay announced that he had mitigated the symptoms of Parkinson's in rats by using mouse embryonic stem cells that he had turned into dopamine - producing brain cells.

But at the end of the first year, the team examined the brains of half the monkeys and found that the stem cells had turned into dopamine - releasing cells.

In turn, hyper - activated TLR3 turns off genes that stem cells need to specialize into brain cells and turns on genes that trigger cell suicide.

Two teams turned embryonic stem cells into brain cells, stained differently in these pictures.

Neural stem cells, normally destined to turn into neurons and other brain cells, instead become muscle when they are put in contact with muscle cells, researchers now report.

Stem cells also can be turned into any type of cell in the body, including brain cells.

Scientists at the University of Luxembourg have succeeded in turning human stem cells derived from skin samples into tiny, 3 - D, brain - like cultures that behave very similarly to cells in the human midbrain.

Most of these trials involve stem cell — derived neural progenitor cells, which can turn into several different types of brain or spinal cord cells, or oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, which create the myelin sheaths that insulate and protect nerve cells.

The findings suggest that the epilepsy component of this syndrome may stem from faulty protein transport in the cell, which in turn may overexcite brain networks in the cerebral cortex.

One such antibody agonist, which can turn stem - like cells in bone marrow into young brain cells, was described in a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last month.

In this method, skin cells are turned directly into brain, heart, liver, or pancreas cells without going through a stem cell stage first.

Researchers are concerned that stem cells, once let loose, might take a wrong turn; heart cells, for instance, could end up in the brain.

Deep inside your brain, a legion of stem cells lies ready to turn into new brain and nerve cells when you need them.

Barcelona, studies the process by which stem cells turn into neurons, the type of brain cells that malfunction and die in HD.

Stem cell scientist Sheng Ding has used his unique drug cocktails to turn skin cells into brain, heart, liver, and insulin - producing pancreas cells.

The brain, it turns out, can heal itself, and adding stem cells could unleash that toper to treat Parkinson's, stroke and even depression.

The researchers, however, observed that older brains formed fewer blood vessels and possessed a smaller pool of progenitor cells — the early descendants of stem cells that turn into neurons.

Stem cells allow researchers to collect blood or skin samples from living patients and turn them into the brain cells affected by the disease — neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and neurons.

They found that only about 4 percent of them turned into neurons, indicating the stem cells were not improving memory simply by replacing the dead brain cells.

Scientists recently figured out that they can grow stem cells that turn into those parts of your brain.