Sentences with phrase «types of stem cells begin»

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Trials of cells made from human embryonic stem cells are also poised to begin in people with type 1 diabetes and heart failure, the first time embryonic stem cells have been used in the treatment of major lethal diseases.

Furthermore, stem - cell lines from mice begin to lose their ability to produce many types of cells after as few as 20 generations, and researchers assume the same will prove true for stem cells from humans.

In the past, scientists have tried to isolate so - called auditory stem cells from embryoid bodie — aggregates of stem cells that have begun to differentiate into different types.

Cancer cells resemble stem cells not because they can turn into other cell types, but because in developmental terms, they seem to go in the opposite direction: they begin to run through multiple layers of stop signs and barricades and just keep on multiplying.

The grand architecture of the human cortex, with its hundreds of distinct cell types, begins as a uniform layer of neural stem cells and builds itself from the inside out during several months of embryonic development.

Within this elementary biological structure, three types of cells begin to cluster and develop: the embryonic stem cells (which eventually become the body of the embryo), and two extra-embryonic types of cells - the trophoblast stem cells (which develop into the placenta) and the endoderm stem cells (which go on to form the yolk sac).