Sentences with phrase «turning human stem»

Belmonte uses very early - stage pig embryos, whose biological signals are capable of turning human stem cells into the «perfect human organs» he's after.

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.

They've figured out how to turn human stem cells into functional pancreatic β cells — the same cells that are destroyed by the body's own immune system in type 1 diabetes patients.

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.

This week, he and his colleagues report a potentially significant step toward that goal: a recipe that can turn human stem cells into functional pancreatic β cells — the cells that are destroyed by the body's own immune system in type 1 diabetes patients such as Melton's son and daughter.

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First mouse cells were turned into «totipotent» stem cells, and now early work suggests the same might have been achieved with human cells

Anand and his colleague Susan McKay started with human skin cells, which they turned into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) using a tried - and - tested method.

Fraudulent cloned cells were likely the first example of a human egg turned directly into stem cells

Wells's team first turned human skin cells into pluripotent stem cells, which can grow into any type of tissue.

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.

Similar to the naturally occurring effects of TET2 mutations in mice or humans, using molecular biology techniques to turn off TET2 in mice caused abnormal stem cell behavior.

In this study, researchers took cells from patients with blood cancer MDS and turned them into stem cells to study the deletions of human chromosome 7 often associated with this disease.

«New gene editing technique turns human pluripotent stem cells into a model system for polycystic kidney disease.»

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 turn human induced pluripotent stem cells into lung cells: «Bronchospheres» may pave way for personalized cystic fibrosis treatments.»

The authors commented that it is time to turn attention to the much - needed work of determining the safety, feasibility, efficacy of IVD stem cell transplant for humans.

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.

Ko first cloned the human GT198 gene while a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, and subsequent studies by her and others have shown it has multiple roles that also include regulating stem cells, cell suicide and turning other genes off and on.

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.

These stem cells — known as induced pluripotent stem cells or iPS cells — can be turned into almost any specialised cell type of the human body, including the cells we need to see.

«We found that the worms and human cells were almost completely protected from the Huntington's aggregates when we turned on this response,» said Andrew Dillin, the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Research in UC Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

«What's cool about this group of genes is that they also get turned on in human melanoma,» says Zon, who is also a member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Over the past few years, researchers have increasingly turned to stem cells to study various diseases in humans.

- 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.

In turn this could lead to the realistic prospect of using SCNT to generate stem cells for therapeutic purposes in humans as well as generating transgenic animals that are healthy, fertile and productive.

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.

He used adult cells — first in mice, although the technique is now feasible in human cells — to make stem cells that can form a wide range of other cells, essentially turning their cellular clocks back to infancy so they could mature into different adults.

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.

Rather than reversing cells all the way back to a stem cell state before prompting them to turn into something else, such as in the case of iPS cells, the researchers «rewind» skin cells just enough to instruct them to form the more than 200 cell types that constitute the human body.

The work, as detailed in the journal Stem Cells, shows that only a bit of creative manipulation is needed to turn skin cells into human white blood cells.

Besides the attempt to avoid the bioethical tug - of - war that is human stem - cell research, the scientists have a very logical reason for turning to cow eggs: In order to really study stem - cell development in a way that could lead to tangible benefits in medicine, researchers need to look at thousands and thousands of specimens, and human eggs are in short supply.

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.

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

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.

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.

Telomere shortening occurs in human cells because the enzyme telomerase that adds DNA to the telomere is only active in few cell types, namely stem cells, and is turned off in most other human cells.

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.

Lanner also hopes to learn things that could help scientists who are trying to turn stem cells from human embryos into new treatments for diseases.

In the Science study, Ding's team used trial and error to find a combination of chemicals that could induce human skin cells to turn into multipotent stem cells, and then into cardiomyocytes.

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.

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.

There is an abundance of issues that stem straight from the small gene pools that human beings have manipulated in dogs; 60 percent of golden retrievers will die of cancer before they turn eight.

Meanwhile, Dr. Mick Bhatia's group at the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University found a way to make human skin cells sing «Any Way You Want Me,» turning directly into blood cells without a pluripotent cell step in between.