Etiqueta: reprogramming
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Rare Heart Defect Reproduced in Petri Dish, Hope for Cure
Dr. Ananya Mandal, MD A team of researchers has created beating heart cells in the lab using skin cells of children with a rare heart defect. The team, led by Ricardo Dolmetsch of Stanford University took skin cells from children with Timothy syndrome, a rare heart condition commonly associated with autism, as well as syndactyly…
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Butyrate Greatly Enhances Derivation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Promoting Epigenetic Remodeling and the Expression of Pluripotency-Associated Genes
Generation of inducible pluripotent stem cells (iPS) offers the possibility of creating patient-specific stem cells with embryonic stem cell therapeutic potential from adult sources. Recently the main hurdle of iPS cell generation, the need for introduction of oncogenes in the adult cells, has been removed by use of chemical modulators as well as alternative non-cancer…