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Engineers develop new way to fuse cells

Engineers develop new way to fuse cells

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created Jan 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

MIT engineers have developed a new, highly efficient way to pair up cells so they can be fused together into a hybrid cell. The new technique should make it much easier for scientists to study what happens ...





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Major advance in cell reprogramming technology

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a paper publishing online April 23rd in Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press journal, Dr. Sheng Ding and colleagues from the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, report an important step forward in the race to mak ...


New method for creating inducible stem cells is remarkably efficient

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created Sep 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Some of the most challenging obstacles limiting the reprogramming of mature human cells into stem cells may not seem quite as daunting in the near future. Two independent research papers, published by Cell Press in the September ...


New technique produces genetically identical stem cells

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created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Adult cells of mice created from genetically reprogrammed cells—so-called induced pluripotent stem (IPS) stem cells—can be triggered via drug to enter an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, without the need for further genetic ...


Reprogramming a patient's eye cells may herald new treatments against degenerative disease

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created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists have overcome a key barrier to the clinical use of stem cells with a technique which transforms regular body cells into artificial stem cells without the need for introducing foreign genetic materials, which could ...


Scientists identify compounds for stem-cell production from adult cells

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created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In the study, the scientists screened known drugs and identified small molecules that could replace conventional reprogramming genes, which can have dangerous side effects. This new process offers a new way to generate stem ...


Scientists excise vector, exotic genes from induced stem cells

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created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers reports that it has created induced human pluripotent stem (iPS) cells completely free of viral vectors and exotic genes.


Researchers piggyback to safer reprogrammed stem cells

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created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Austin Smith and his research team at the Centre for Stem Cell Research in Cambridge have just published in the journal Development a new and safer way of generating pluripotent stem cells - the stem cells that can give r ...


Converting adult somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells using a single virus

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created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Boston University School of Medicine-led research team has discovered a more efficient way to create induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells, derived from mouse fibroblasts, by using a single virus vector instead of multiple ...


Biologists find stem cell-like functions in other types of plant cells

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ordinary cells have the ability to replace lost organs in plants—a function previously thought to be limited to stem cells—researchers at New York University's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and Utrecht University ...


Umbilical cord blood as a readily available source for off-the-shelf, patient-specific stem cells

It's in the bank: Human cord blood reprogrammed into embryonic-like stem cells

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created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Human umbilical cord blood cells may be far more versatile than previous research has indicated. Two independent studies, published by Cell Press in the October 2nd issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, report ...



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