Etiqueta: ips cells
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Mimicking Human Diseases in Cells: iPS Cells Used to Create Model of Extremely Rare Condition Dyskeratosis Congenita
Batista et al. Nature. Key to scientific progress is the ability to test new treatments in animals that represent the human disease of interest or in cells in the laboratory that represent the human disease. The better these test systems represent the human disease, the more likely it is that approaches successful in the test…
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Killing of the iPS Field?
Zhao et al. Nature. Embryonic stem cells are associated with numerous ethical dilemmas. The creation of equivalents of ES cells through retrodifferentiation led to a new area of research that does not require destruction of life. Specifically, it was discovered that any adult cell can be transfected with several genes, which results in the cell…
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UW Researchers Make Stem Cell Breakthrough
Seung Park, Badger Herald Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have made a breakthrough in stem cell research. Igor Slukvin headed the team that has successfully reprogrammed bone marrow cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). “This is important because blood banks have huge amounts of samples of bone marrow,” he said. “You can select…
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Using Stem Cells to Study Alcohol Dependence
One of the major advancements in the area of stem cell research has been the establishment of techniques for "retro-differentiating" of old cells into younger cells. Perhaps one of the best examples of this is the discovery by the Japanese group of Yamanaka the skin cells can be coaxed to take the resemblance of embryonic…