Sentences with phrase «turning human embryonic stem cells»

Lanza's dream of turning human embryonic stem cells into therapies for the sick and the suffering is taking a huge step closer to reality.

The company has turned human embryonic stem cells into retinal pigment epithelial cells, which will be surgically implanted into the eye.

Forbes, Robert Langreth, February 20, 2008: In progress toward a stem - cell treatment for diabetes, researchers at a small San Diego biotech company have devised a procedure for turning human embryonic stems cells into insulin - producing cells inside mice.

Not exact matches

Although primed, post-implantation embryonic stem cells can still turn into any type of human cell, they are more difficult to work with than the pre-implantation, naive cells.

Scientists recently announced that they have found a way to turn human skin into cells that have all the therapeutic potential of embryonic stem cells.

While conservatives in Congress took turns echoing George W. Bush's opposition to destroying human embryos for research, Lensch's colleague Paul Lerou stepped into a small room behind a heavy black curtain to check up on a line of nonpresidential embryonic stem cells.

- Our results provide new insights into the mechanisms of how POLR3G gene regulates stem cell state, which in turn sheds light on the complex mechanisms with which human embryonic stem cells both self - renew and maintain the ability to differentiate.

It is possible to force human skin cells to turn back into embryonic stem cells in the lab, but this doesn't seem to be something we are able to achieve without intervention.

Both teams successfully used these to reprogramme skin cells in a lab dish into cells resembling embryonic stem cells, which have the ability to turn into any tissue of the human body.

Experiments conducted by lead author Fatima Syed - Picard, Ph.D., also of Pitt's Department of Ophthalmology, and the team showed that stem cells of the dental pulp, obtained from routine human third molar, or wisdom tooth, extractions performed at Pitt's School of Dental Medicine, could be turned into corneal stromal cells called keratocytes, which have the same embryonic origin.

Human embryonic stem cells can turn into a variety of different cell types, including (A) gut, (B) neural cells, (C) bone marrow cells, (D) cartilage, (E) muscle, and (F) kidney cells.

To overcome these hurdles, Bhatia and her team reprogrammed human skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-- embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease.